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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. openGauss vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. openGauss vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb vs. Yaacomo

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4yaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
sphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonHuawei and openGauss communitySphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SCQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20122019200120112009
Current release3.0, March 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL 2011SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationnonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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