DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. MaxDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. MaxDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

maxdb.sap.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Mireo

Initial release

2012

1984

2020

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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 search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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