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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.Spatial extension of H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBCNRScurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122013201320111984
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infobased on H2no
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on H2selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infobased on H2no

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