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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

IBM

SAP

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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