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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4trafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122014201120142011
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 20152.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaC#C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesyes
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 indexednonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersnonononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyes, utilizing Spark CorenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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