DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

quasar.ai

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Amazon

Google

quasardb

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2010

2009

2013

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

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)

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple password-based access control

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