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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Netezza vs. OceanBase vs. OrientDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaen.oceanbase.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonIBMOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2012200020102010
Current release4.3.0, April 20243.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeJava, Javascript
TriggersnonoyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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