DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Dragonfly vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	12.45
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

impala.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Cloudflare

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2013

2018

2023

1989

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.0, March 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

scheme-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

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 for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Password-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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