DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrientDB vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.exasol.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

orientdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.exasol.com/resources

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

Exasol

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2000

1989

2010

2015

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Java, Javascript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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