DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Netezza vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Heroic vs. Netezza vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ToroDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

ToroDB 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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.06
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Amazon

Spotify

IBM

Sybase, SAP

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2014

2000

1993

2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

included in appliance

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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