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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Hypertable vs. PouchDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.comhsqldb.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAmazonThomas MuellerHypertable Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20122005200120092012
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.2, June 20230.9.8.11, March 20167.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
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 databasenoneselectable replication factor on file system levelMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
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 signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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