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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.aipostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonCNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.
Initial release2012201320162005
Current release5.10, January 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nouser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoRound robinyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infobased on H2Multi-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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