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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. chDB vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#330	Overall
	#30	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.h2database.com

hsqldb.org

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

doc.chdb.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

Ultipa

Initial release

2012

2023

2005

2001

2019

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

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

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

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