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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query Server
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score35.09
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2boilerbay.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2boilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonIBMBoiler Bay Inc.SAP, SybaseSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20121983 infohost version200219872022
Current release12.1, October 20164.016.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree version is availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC and C++Rust
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaC
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoJava and Transact-SQL
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versionnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, based on authentication and database rules

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