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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. OpenQM vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp KunDB

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Name

Description

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

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#341	Overall
	#149	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

1993

1998

Current release

3.4-12

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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