DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake vs. Solr

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1992

2017

2014

2006

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

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