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

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

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2022

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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