DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. EXASOL vs. Oracle vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Widely used RDBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

impala.apache.org

www.exasol.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Exasol

Oracle

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2013

2000

1980

2019

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

yes

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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