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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

Initial release

2012

1984

2011

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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