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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Microsoftquasardb
Initial release2012198420162009
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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