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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlpostgis.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012198420052022
Current release7.4.1.1, 20213.4.2, February 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRust
Server operating systemshostedHP Open VMSLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeACIDACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, based on authentication and database rules

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