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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsSpatial extension of H2A widely adopted in-memory data gridMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Spatial DBMSKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gigaspaces.comwww.h2gis.orghazelcast.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperAmazonGigaspaces TechnologiesCNRSHazelcastRocket Software
Initial release20122000201320081985
Current release15.5, September 20205.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptional
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategy
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infobased on H2yes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesyes
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesyes infoEventsyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yes infobased on H2yes infoReplicated MapSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus Algorithm
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infoconfigurable
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access controlyes infobased on H2Role-based access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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