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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. MonetDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  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 cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoftMonetDB BV
Initial release2012200820162004
Current release7.2.4, September 2012Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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