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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

1991

2006

Current release

5.7

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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