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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Sqrrl vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. H2 vs. Sqrrl vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.orgwww.h2database.comsqrrl.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.org/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Thomas MuellerAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release20122002200520121999
Current release1.1, February 20172.2.220, July 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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