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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	2.42
Rank	#138	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.54
Rank	#133	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Amazon

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2008

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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DB-Engines blog posts

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

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Spatial database management systems
6 April 2021, Matthias Gelbmann

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Recent citations in the news

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24 January 2014, TechTarget

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