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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Druid vs. Microsoft Access vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessobjectbox.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftObjectBox Limitedquasardb
Initial release20122012199220172009
Current release29.0.1, April 20241902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Triggersnonoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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