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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Galaxybase vs. Lovefield vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational 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
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgalaxybase.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Google
Initial release2012201720142005
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.1.12, February 20173.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsnouser defined functions
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyes
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 AWSnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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