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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenEdge vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudApplication development environment with integrated database management systemScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.progress.com/­openedgeopentsdb.netwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonProgress Software Corporationcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20121984201120062001
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20208.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers and groupsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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