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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Solr vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Solr vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablessolr.apache.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonMicrosoftApache Software FoundationParadigma Software
Initial release2012201220061999
Current release9.6.1, May 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava pluginsyes
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic lockingoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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