DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Snowflake vs. TempoIQ

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Name

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Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.snowflake.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Snowflake Computing Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

simple authentication-based access control

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