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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trino

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.ioazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.timescale.comtrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.timescale.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.MicrosoftTimescaleTrino Software Foundation
Initial release20122015201020172012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current releaseV122.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaTransact SQLuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infodepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
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Amazon CloudSearchBigObjectMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureTimescaleDBTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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