DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.snowflake.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

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

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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