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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. H2

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BaseX vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. H2

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.
Primary database modelSearch engineNative XML DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbasex.orgblueflood.iowww.exasol.comwww.h2database.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.basex.orggithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.html
DeveloperAmazonBaseX GmbHRackspaceExasolThomas Mueller
Initial release20122007201320002005
Current release10.7, August 20232.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Java
Lua
Python
R
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writernoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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