DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. HarperDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HarperDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.55
Rank	#252	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	37.12
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.harperdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.harperdb.io/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

HarperDB

SAP, Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

1987

2000

Current release

3.1, August 2021

16.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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