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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. MonetDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.monetdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

MonetDB BV

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2004

2006

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

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