DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#285	Overall
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

1984

Current release

15585

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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