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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. searchxml vs. Splice Machine

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score18.98
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#244  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonActian CorporationMicrosoftinformationpartners gmbhSplice Machine
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201620152014
Current release12.0, July 20241.03.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindowsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLyes infoon the application serveryes infoJava
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSIngres Replicatoryesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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-standardyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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