DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.postgres-xl.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

1994

2021

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2001

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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