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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchduckdb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchduckdb.org/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftWakanda SAS
Initial release2012201820152012
Current release1.0.0, June 2024V12.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedserver-lesshostedLinux
OS X
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infousing Azure authenticationyes

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