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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Access vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.citusdata.comdocs.heavy.aideveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonHEAVY.AI, Inc.MicrosoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122010201619922009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release8.1, December 20185.10, January 20221902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC++C#
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesdepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoWrite ahead log
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 signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Role based authorization

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