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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. GBase vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. GBase vs. Pinecone

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.66
Rank#138  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comwww.gbase.cnwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAmazonExasolGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2012200020042019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, Python
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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