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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

doc.nuodb.com

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

CNRS

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2006

Current release

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free trial version 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

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data 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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

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

Temporary table

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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