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

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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 ServerQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release2012200820161993
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infowith some exceptions
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyes
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 partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
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, HTTPyesAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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