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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name	Amazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparison	InfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparison
Description	A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud	A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface	The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS
Primary database model	Search engine	Key-value store	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Spatial DBMS with Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.20 Rank #120   Overall #11   Search engines	Score 0.01 Rank #350   Overall #53   Key-value stores	Score 45.45 Rank #25   Overall #17   Relational DBMS
Website	aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearch	boilerbay.com	www.sap.com/­products/­sybase-ase.html
Technical documentation	docs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearch	boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual	help.sap.com/­viewer/­product/­SAP_ASE
Developer	Amazon	Boiler Bay Inc.	SAP, Sybase
Initial release	2012	2002	1987
Current release		4.0	16.0
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no
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Implementation language		Java	C and C++
Server operating systems	hosted	All OS with a Java VM	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Unix Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays	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.		no	no
Secondary indexes	yes all search fields are automatically indexed	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	HTTP API	Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
Supported programming languages		Java	C C++ Cobol Java Java Perl PHP Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	Java and Transact-SQL
Triggers	no	no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	yes automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required	none	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes managed transparently by AWS	none	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no
User concepts Access control	authentication via encrypted signatures	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Amazon CloudSearch	InfinityDB	SAP Adaptive Server former name: Sybase ASE
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