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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. InfinityDB vs. Kingbase vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#262	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

boilerbay.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Amazon

Boiler Bay Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2002

1999

2011

Current release

4.0

V8.0, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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