DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

quasardb

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

2013

2000

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

8.5, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

with Hadoop integration

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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