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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HEAVY.AI vs. jBASE vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.heavy.ai

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

Developer

Amazon

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2016

1991

2011

Current release

5.10, January 2022

5.7

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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