DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. HyperSQL vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. HyperSQL vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.74
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.47
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.08
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.datomic.com

hsqldb.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.datomic.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2001

2014

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

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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