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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmaxdb.sap.comwww.pinecone.iowww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Pinecone Systems, IncSplunk Inc.
Initial release2012198420192003
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
PythonC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles

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