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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenTSDB vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchopentsdb.netsphinxsearch.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazoncurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201120012023
Current release3.5.1, February 20231.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoVector, Numeric and String
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
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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