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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­home
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBCCRi and othersCNRS
Initial release2012201320142013
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.0.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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 indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynoyes infobased on H2
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingdepending on storage layernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2

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