DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.sadasengine.com

www.sqlite.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Google

acquired by Google 2014

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2006

2000

2012

Current release

8.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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