DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Solr

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

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

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

Microsoft

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2016

1992

1989

2006

Current release

1703

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

9.5.0, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

LDAP

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

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

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

none

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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