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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. ObjectBox

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoftObjectBox Limited
Initial release20122015200920102017
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V12
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoTransact SQLno
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes, with always 3 replicas availableonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)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 datanonoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchBigObjectEhcacheMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureObjectBox
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