DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

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Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

bigobject.io

www.h2database.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.bigobject.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

Amazon

Atos Convergence Creators

BigObject, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2005

1993

Current release

1703

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

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

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

LDAP

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

All languages with LDAP bindings

Java

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

cell division

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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