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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Sphinx vs. Trino vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsphinxsearch.comtrino.iowww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsphinxsearch.com/­docstrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
docs.voltdb.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAmazonSphinx Technologies Inc.Trino Software FoundationVoltDB Inc.
Initial release201220012012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL2010
Current release3.5.1, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsdepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, depending on connected data-sourceJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supporteddepending on connected data-sourceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnonedepending on connected data-sourceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonodepending on connected data-sourceACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.depending on connected data-sourceyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoSQL standard access controlUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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Amazon CloudSearchSphinxTrinoVoltDB
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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