DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. FileMaker vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.datomic.com

dgraph.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.datomic.com

dgraph.io/docs

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Cognitect

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

1983

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Synchronous replication via Raft

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Planned for future releases

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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