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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. HyperSQL vs. InfinityDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iohsqldb.orgboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release2012201320012002
Current release2.7.2, June 20234.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyespredefined schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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 indexednoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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