DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Amazon

Google

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

2012

1984

Current release

6.0, February 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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