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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. Sphinx vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. atoti vs. Sphinx vs. Titan

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchatoti.iosphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.atoti.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonActiveViamSphinx Technologies Inc.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release201220012012
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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