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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. JSqlDb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousejsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBMKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20122008198320142018
Current release7.2.4, September 201219.4.1, November 20210.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
PHPJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesPL/SQL, SQL PLfunctions in JavaScript
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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