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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Rockset vs. SWC-DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score93.76
Rank#12  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#378  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databaserockset.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftMicrosoftRocksetAlex Kashirin
Initial release20121992201020192020
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019V120.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineTransact SQLnono
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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