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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2012200920132023
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexVector, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infowith tagsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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