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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperAmazonHEAVY.AI, Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2012201620052015
Current release5.10, January 2022V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes infousing Azure authentication

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