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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Netezza vs. NSDb vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Netezza vs. NSDb vs. SiriDB vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen Source Time Series DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzansdb.iosiridb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.siridb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonIBMCesbitJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122000201720172019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ScalaCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
macOS
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infoNumeric datayes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptsimple rights management via user accounts

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Amazon CloudSearchNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMNSDbSiriDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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