DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#138	Overall
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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

machbase.com/dbms

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Amazon

Google

Machbase

Microsoft

Initial release

2007

2010

2013

2015

2016

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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 columns are indexed automatically

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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