DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. Newts vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. Newts vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed reliable key-value store

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

OpenNMS Group

Qdrant

SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

2021

2010

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

HTTP REST
Java API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Key-based authentication

yes

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