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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. PostGIS vs. Valentina Server

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCloud-based data warehousing serviceSpatial extension of PostgreSQLObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousepostgis.netwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpostgis.net/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperAmazonIBMParadigma Software
Initial release2012201420051999
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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