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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerarkDB

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Name	Amazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparison	EsgynDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	TerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud	Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database model	Search engine	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.81 Rank #137   Overall #12   Search engines	Score 0.25 Rank #312   Overall #138   Relational DBMS		Score 0.08 Rank #367   Overall #56   Key-value stores
Website	aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearch	www.esgyn.cn	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentation	docs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearch			bytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developer	Amazon	Esgyn	Sybase, SAP	ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release	2012	2015	1993	2016
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial	commercial restricted open source version available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++, Java		C++
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	no
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.		no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes all search fields are automatically indexed	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	yes	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	C++ API Java API
Supported programming languages		All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java Stored Procedures	yes	no
Triggers	no	no	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	yes automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required	Sharding	none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes managed transparently by AWS	Multi-source replication between multi datacenters	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control	authentication via encrypted signatures	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	no
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	Amazon CloudSearch	EsgynDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	TerarkDB
DB-Engines blog posts	Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market 3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines 4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger show all
Recent citations in the news	Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services 12 April 2012, AWS Blog Searching CloudTrail Logs Easily with Amazon CloudSearch | AWS Startups Blog 21 October 2014, AWS Blog AWS, Microsoft and Google should retire these cloud services 2 June 2020, TechTarget CloudSearch Update – Price Reduction, Hebrew & Japanese Support, Partitioning, CloudTrail | Amazon Web Services 19 November 2014, AWS Blog Serverless Reference Architectures with AWS Lambda 10 May 2016, All Things Distributed provided by Google News		SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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