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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. Warp 10

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 PostgreSQLTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.netwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentationwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBCNRSSenX
Initial release20122013201320052015
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
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 functionsyes infoWarpScript
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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