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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudApplication development environment with integrated database management systemCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.snowflake.comwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonProgress Software CorporationSnowflake Computing Inc.Dwayne Richard HippSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20121984201420002022
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20203.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCRust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesProgress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4yesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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