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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. LokiJS vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

based on H2

none

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Write ahead log

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 authorization

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Recent citations in the news

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