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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Pinecone vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Pinecone vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used in-process key-value storeA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.pinecone.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePinecone Systems, IncTransaction Software GmbHParadigma Software
Initial release20121994201919871999
Current release18.1.40, May 2020Transbase 8.3, 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C and C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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