DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenMLDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenMLDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

openmldb.ai

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

4 Paradigm Inc.

SAP

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2020

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

1984

Current release

2024-2 February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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