DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

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

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2012

1984

2010

1984

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

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

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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, based on authentication and database rules

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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