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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AntDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.25
Rank	#303	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Amazon

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

IBM

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

1983

host version

2015

Current release

12.1, October 2016

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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