DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. jBASE vs. Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2012

1991

1999

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

5.7

V8.0, August 2021

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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