DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Linter vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Linter vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

RDBMS for high security requirements

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.74
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.23
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#180	Overall
	#82	Relational DBMS

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

linter.ru

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

IBM

relex.ru

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

1990

1984

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

HP Open VMS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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