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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Impala vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageAnalytic DBMS for HadoopA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
#59  Relational DBMS
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.orgimpala.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdrill.apache.org/­docsimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaElasticMicrosoft
Initial release20072012201320102016
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.1.0, June 20228.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoElastic Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesTransact SQL
Triggersnononoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceES-Hadoop Connectorno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
noneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourcenoMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosyes

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