DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. OceanBase vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OceanBase vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

en.oceanbase.com

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Amazon

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

Current release

4.3.0, April 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

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

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

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