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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

IBM

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

1984

2005

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

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

Server operating systems

hosted

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL, SQL PL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

based on H2

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

yes, on a single node

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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Recent citations in the news

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