DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. TypeDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#8	Object oriented DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

typedb.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

typedb.com/docs

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Amazon

Microsoft

Vaticle

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

1989

2016

2013

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

2.28.3, June 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Synchronous replication via raft

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

substituted by the relationship feature

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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