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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaseswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoftSimer Plaha
Initial release2012200920102018
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCacheADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoby using Terracotta Servernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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