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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite

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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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2015

2000

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes

using Azure authentication

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