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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Relational 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
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasepostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonCNRSMicrosoft
Initial release2012201320102005
Current releaseV123.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedhosted
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2Transact SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infobased on H2yes, with always 3 replicas availableyes 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 integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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