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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  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 ServerA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#387  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonSpotifyMicrosoftAlex KashirinByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122014201020202016
Current releaseV120.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
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 integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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