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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Riak TS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed Database based on LuceneDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelSearch engineNative XML DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.56
Rank#141  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbasex.orgcratedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.basex.orgcratedb.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHCrateMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122007201320102015
Current release11.2, August 20245.8.1, August 2024V123.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Erlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesno
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions (Javascript)Transact SQLErlang
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes, with always 3 replicas availableselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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