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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. HyperSQL vs. Sequoiadb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of H2Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.orghsqldb.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperAmazonCNRSSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2012201320012013
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Java, SQLJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infobased on H2noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
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-standardsimple password-based access control

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