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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. NSDb vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchnsdb.ioprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchnsdb.io/­Architectureprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonquasardb
Initial release2012201720152009
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ScalaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedall fields are automatically indexednoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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