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

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

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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Amazon

Google

Huawei and openGauss community

quasardb

Initial release

2012

2010

2019

2009

Current release

3.0, March 2022

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

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

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, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL 2011

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

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

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

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)

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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