DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Native XML DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.89
Rank	#104	Overall
	#9	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#128	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#274	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	15.53
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

basex.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircomedge-iot-database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.basex.org

learn.faircomcorp.com/developers/documentation_directory

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

BaseX GmbH

FairCom Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2007

1979

2014

Current release

9.4.6, January 2021

V3, October 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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