DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

brytlyt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.brytlyt.io

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Amazon

Brytlyt

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2010

2016

Current release

5.0, August 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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