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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

SAP

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2007

2010

2011

Current release

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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