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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Machbase Neo vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Machbase Neo vs. QuestDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmachbase.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmachbase.com/­dbmsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonMachbaseQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release201220132014
Current releaseV8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple password-based access control
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Amazon CloudSearchMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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