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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS vs. RDFox

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQLHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.netwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperAmazonCNRSOxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release2012201320052017
Current release3.4.2, February 20246.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesJavaC
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes
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 infobased on PostgreSQLreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
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)yes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQLRoles, resources, and access types

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