DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SwayDB

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Name

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Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

geospock.com

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

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

GeoSpock

Microsoft

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2016

1989

2018

Current release

1703

2.0, September 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

LDAP

JDBC

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

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

Automatic sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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