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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. CrateDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. CrateDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed Database based on LuceneDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
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
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#361  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcratedb.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcratedb.com/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperAmazonCrateMicrosoftSTS Soft SCTranswarp
Initial release2012201320102011
Current release5.8.1, August 2024V124.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedWindows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
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
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)Transact SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 strategyACIDno
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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