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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. gStore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. gStore vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Prometheus

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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.A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comen.gstore.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverprometheus.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonExasolMicrosoft
Initial release20122000201619892015
Current release1.2, November 2023SQL Server 2022, November 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesno infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javano
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingtables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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