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

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchpostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.com
DeveloperAmazonAlessandro FurieriSQream Technologies
Initial release2012200520082017
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinux
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
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 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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