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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. Hazelcast vs. HyperSQL vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A widely adopted in-memory data gridMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.74
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score7.10
Rank#47  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score3.08
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score19.62
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.comhazelcast.comhsqldb.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docshsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonThomas MuellerHazelcast
Initial release20122005200820012005
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.3.6, November 20232.7.2, June 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infoEventsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infoReplicated Mapnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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