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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Qdrant vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.23
Rank	#171	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

qdrant.tech/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Amazon

Qdrant

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2021

2015

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Collection-level replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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19 November 2014, AWS Blog

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