DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2015

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

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