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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OushuDB vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OushuDB vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.progress.com/­marklogicazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.oushu.com/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonMarkLogic Corp.MicrosoftOushuParadigma Software
Initial release2012200120151999
Current release11.0, December 2022V14.0.1, August 20205.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL92noFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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, with Range Indexesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsyes infousing Azure authenticationKerberos, SSL and role based accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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