DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

Rockset

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2019

2010

2008

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Automatic sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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