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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Doris vs. CrateDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Doris vs. CrateDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Qdrant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolDistributed Database based on LuceneDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
cratedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikicratedb.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduCrateMicrosoftQdrant
Initial release20122017201320102021
Current release1.2.2, February 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL client
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesJava.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)Transact SQL
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes, with always 3 replicas availableCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchApache DorisCrateDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureQdrant
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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