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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Pinecone vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.pinecone.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAmazonOraclePinecone Systems, IncTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2012201120191987
Current release24.1, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)yes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cachenono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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