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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Microsofts flagship relational DBMSDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score824.29
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverquasar.aisql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourceslearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonExasolMicrosoftquasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122000198920092012
Current releaseSQL Server 2022, November 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
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 infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, but depending on the SQL-Server EditionSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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