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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.08
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.50
Rank#166  Overall
#29  Document stores
#27  Key-value stores
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#360  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#180  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score24.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122013201319842005
Current release6.2.28, November 20207.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesyes
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 onlyyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
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 H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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