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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Qdrant

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.MicrosoftQdrant
Initial release20122014200520162021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoTransact SQL
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesSource-replica replicationyesCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyesKey-based authentication

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