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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Informix

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Brytlyt vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Informix

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBrytlyt  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQLSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#288  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbrytlyt.iogeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­informix
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.brytlyt.iodocs.heavy.aiinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperAmazonBrytlytGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.
Initial release2012201620161984
Current release5.0, August 20232.0, September 20195.10, January 202214.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++ and CUDAJava, JavascriptC++ and CUDAC, C++ and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyestemporal, categoricalnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PL/pgSQLnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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