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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Databricks

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.62
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score99.29
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.databricks.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.databricks.com
DeveloperAmazonDatabricks
Initial release20122013
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Server operating systemshostedhosted
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQL
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregates
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
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 signatures

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