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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. MarkLogic vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

www.progress.com/marklogic

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

MarkLogic Corp.

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2005

2001

2023

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
OS X
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

yes, with Range Indexes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access Control Lists

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