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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Kingbase vs. PostGIS vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.kingbase.com.cnpostgis.netsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.SQream Technologies
Initial release2012199920052017
Current releaseV8.0, August 20213.4.2, February 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and JavaCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.yesyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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