DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

2019

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

String, Number, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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