DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	10.63
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

impala.apache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

1987

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

yes

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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