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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AntDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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