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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.comwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMSnowflake Computing Inc.SenX
Initial release20122010200020142015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux infoincluded in appliancehostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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 signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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