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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. Ehcache vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.exasol.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGExasolMicrosoft
Initial release20122013200920002016
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyespredefined schemeschema-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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTJCache.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
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 datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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