DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. Oracle 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

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	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.oracle.com/database

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

postgis.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.oracle.com/en/database

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

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2013

1980

1984

2005

Current release

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

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, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

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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