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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. SAP HANA vs. Teradata vs. UniData,UniVerse

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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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	47.84
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.teradata.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

help.sap.com/hana

docs.teradata.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

SAP

Teradata

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2010

1984

1985

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

hosted
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

Sharding

Hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

configurable

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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