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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HyperSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hsqldb.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2001

2007

1987

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

14.1, August 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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