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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenQM vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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 ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyMicrosoftRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122014201019932001
Current releaseV123.4-123.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLyesno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes, with always 3 replicas availableyesnone
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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