DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

1989

1984

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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