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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. Greenplum vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.80
Rank#60  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegreenplum.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datastax.comdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatavalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonDataStaxPivotal Software Inc.Rocket SoftwareParadigma Software
Initial release20122011200519851999
Current release6.8, April 20207.0.0, September 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptionalyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoU2 Basicyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon CloudSearchDatastax EnterpriseGreenplumUniData,UniVerseValentina Server
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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