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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. Pinecone

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iowww.exasol.comcloud.google.com/­spannerwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourcescloud.google.com/­spanner/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceExasolGooglePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20122013200020172019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedhosted
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesString, Number, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integrity
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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