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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoMesa vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Spatial extension of H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2gis.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonCCRi and othersCNRSOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122014201319842005
Current release4.0.5, February 20247.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedHP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requireddepending on storage layernoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyes, 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.depending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL

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