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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#258  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comwww.kingbase.com.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resources
DeveloperAmazonExasolBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Microsoft
Initial release2012200019992012
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageC and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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