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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

blueflood.io

www.h2database.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Amazon

Rackspace

Thomas Mueller

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2005

2016

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

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

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Round robin

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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