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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. SAP IQ

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  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 scaleColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.62
Rank#135  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#103  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeospock.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperAmazonGeoSpockSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20121994
Current release2.0, September 201916.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava, Javascript
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
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)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic shardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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