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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. JSqlDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial 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
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchjsqldb.org (offline)opentsdb.netpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonKonrad von Backstromcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201820112005
Current release0.8, December 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnofunctions in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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