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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Kinetica vs. LevelDB vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Amazon

Kinetica

Google

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2011

1980

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.23, February 2021

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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