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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Spark SQL vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Spark SQL vs. Warp 10

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.kinetica.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperAmazonKineticaMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSenX
Initial release20122012201020142015
Current release7.1, August 2021V123.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++C++ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsTransact SQLnoyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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