DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. OrientDB vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.84
Rank	#100	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/spanner

orientdb.org

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/spanner/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

2009

2000

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

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

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Query statements complying to ANSI 2011

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC

At present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

could be achieved with distributed queries

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

by using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Strict serializable isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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