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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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 PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.netgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBCNRSJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122013201320052019
Current release6.2.28, November 20203.4.2, February 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyes infobased on H2user defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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