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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Drill vs. DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.74
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.84
Rank#125  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score6.08
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score16.84
Rank#33  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.orgduckdb.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdrill.apache.org/­docsduckdb.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationSpotifyMicrosoft
Initial release20122012201820142016
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lesshosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoTransact SQL
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDepending on the underlying data sourcenoyes

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