DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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

Score	2.24
Rank	#120	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.78
Rank	#199	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	20.66
Rank	#36	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.68
Rank	#91	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#342	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

doc.wakanda.org/home2.en.html#/Datastore/Introduction.200-588937.en.html

Developer

Amazon

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

1993

2012

Current release

3.2.0, April 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

depending on storage layer

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

depending on storage layer

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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DB-Engines blog posts

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