DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2019

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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