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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. HyperSQL

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.52
Rank#125  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score2.25
Rank#133  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#82  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comhsqldb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.html
DeveloperAmazonCognitect
Initial release201220122001
Current release1.0.6362, January 20222.7.1, October 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infobased on BSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, SQL
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes
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 peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes
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 signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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