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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. eXtremeDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedWide column storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisewww.mcobject.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodocs.datastax.comwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.DataStaxMcObjectMicrosoft
Initial release20122015201120012010
Current release6.8, April 20208.2, 2021V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infosupport of XML interfaces availableyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyesTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyesyes infoby defining eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning / sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon CloudSearchBigObjectDatastax EnterpriseeXtremeDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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