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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Fauna vs. H2 vs. Machbase Neo vs. Yanza

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchfauna.comwww.h2database.commachbase.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.fauna.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmachbase.com/­dbms
DeveloperAmazonFauna, Inc.Thomas MuellerMachbaseYanza
Initial release20122014200520132015
Current release2.2.220, July 2023V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial infofree test version availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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