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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Netezza vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. SpaceTime

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzapostgis.netsiridb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonIBMCesbitMireo
Initial release20122000200520172020
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple rights management via user accountsyes

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