DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.citusdata.com

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.citusdata.com

docs.heavy.ai

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2016

2014

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Round robin

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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