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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. CrateDB vs. Drizzle vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. CrateDB vs. Drizzle vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed Database based on LuceneMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcratedb.comen.gstore.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcratedb.com/­docsen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAmazonCrateDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoft
Initial release20122013200820162010
Current release5.8.1, August 20247.2.4, September 20121.2, November 2023V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)noyesTransact SQL
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesrights management via user accountsPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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