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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. Hypertable vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial extension of H2An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoopa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comwww.h2gis.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonCognitectCNRSHypertable Inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release20122012201320092017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20162022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions in Python
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor on file system levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infobased on H2no

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