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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. Kinetica

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.62
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.47
Rank#248  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeospock.comwww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockKinetica
Initial release20122012
Current release2.0, September 20197.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC, C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedtemporal, categoricalyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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