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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.22
Rank	#110	Overall
	#10	Search engines

Score	53.44
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

SAP

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS05 (June 26, 2020), June 2020

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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Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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

JDBC
ODBC

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

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