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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. ArcadeDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. ArcadeDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearcharcadedb.comatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.arcadedb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonArcade DataAtos Convergence CreatorsSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release2012202120162014
Current releaseSeptember 20211703
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
LDAPCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages with LDAP bindingsJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infocell divisionyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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