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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Realm vs. Snowflake

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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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

realm.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

realm.io/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2014

Current release

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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

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