DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. FeatureBase vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime

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

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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

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#292	Overall
	#135	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.featurebase.com

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.featurebase.com

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

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Microsoft

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2020

Current release

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

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 queries

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

yes

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