DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. EXASOL vs. HEAVY.AI vs. MarkLogic

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.exasol.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.progress.com/­marklogic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iowww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.heavy.aiwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.ExasolHEAVY.AI, Inc.MarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20122015200020162001
Current release5.10, January 202211.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyesyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon CloudSearchBigObjectEXASOLHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MarkLogic
DB-Engines blog posts

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

Searching CloudTrail Logs Easily with Amazon CloudSearch | AWS Startups Blog
21 October 2014, AWS Blog

AWS, Microsoft and Google should retire these cloud services
2 June 2020, TechTarget

CloudSearch Update – Price Reduction, Hebrew & Japanese Support, Partitioning, CloudTrail | Amazon Web Services
19 November 2014, AWS Blog

Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda
10 May 2016, All Things Distributed

provided by Google News

It's Back to the Database Future for Exasol CEO Tewes
26 October 2023, Datanami

Exasol Finds AI Underinvestment Leads to Business Failure, But Data Challenges Stall Rapid Adoption
14 May 2024, insideBIGDATA

Exasol gets jolt of AI with Espresso suite of capabilities
26 February 2024, TechTarget

Mathias Golombek, Chief Technology Officer of Exasol – Interview Series
21 May 2024, Unite.AI

Exasol Unveils New Suite of AI Tools to Turbocharge Enterprise Data Analytics
22 February 2024, AiThority

provided by Google News

Big Data Analytics: A Game Changer for Infrastructure
13 July 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

HEAVY.AI Launches HEAVY 7.0, Introducing Real-Time Machine Learning Capabilities
19 April 2023, Business Wire

HEAVY.AI Partners with Bain, Maxar, and Nvidia to Provide Digital Twins for Telecom Networks
16 February 2023, Datanami

Making the most of geospatial intelligence
14 April 2023, InfoWorld

The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q4 2023
11 October 2023, insideBIGDATA

provided by Google News

Vantage Closes Wholesale Deal in Santa Clara
30 May 2024, Data Center Knowledge

MarkLogic “The NoSQL Database”. In the MarkLogic Query Console, you can… | by Abhay Srivastava | Apr, 2024
22 April 2024, Medium

Database Platform to Simplify Complex Data | Progress Marklogic
7 February 2023, Progress Software

ABN AMRO Moves Progress-Powered Credit Store App to Azure Cloud; Achieves 40% Faster Data Processing, Lower ...
12 March 2024, GlobeNewswire

AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
17 April 2024, Breaking Defense

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here