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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdoc.nuodb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewhelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperAmazonDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSAP
Initial release2012201320192010
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based service
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAppliance or cloud-service
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLSQLScript, R
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requireddata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.yes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes

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