DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Machbase Neo vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Machbase Neo vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.com

machbase.com

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

machbase.com/dbms

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Machbase

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

2019

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

authentication via encrypted signatures

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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