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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. OceanBase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of H2A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.orgen.oceanbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonCNRSOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122013201019842005
Current release4.3.0, April 20247.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxHP Open VMS
Data schemeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Supported programming languagesJavaAda infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonehorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)yes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication using Paxosyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infobased on H2Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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