DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. OpenSearch vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. Hazelcast vs. OpenSearch vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org

hazelcast.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Hazelcast

Amazon Web Services

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2021

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

based on H2

yes

Replicated Map

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

configurable

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

yes

based on H2

Role-based access control

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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