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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. PouchDB vs. Transbase

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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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2database.com

pouchdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

pouchdb.com/guides

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

Apache Software Foundation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2005

2012

1987

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

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

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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21 October 2014, AWS Blog

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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19 November 2014, AWS Blog

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22 March 2017, ibm.com

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