DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Riak TS vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rocksdb.org

solr.apache.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2006

1984

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

9.5.0, February 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Java plugins

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

optimistic locking

ACID

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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