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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EJDB vs. IRONdb vs. Stardog vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EJDB vs. IRONdb vs. Stardog vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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 cloudEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.stardog.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonSoftmotionsCirconus LLC.Stardog-Union
Initial release20122012201720102009
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedserver-lessLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIin-process shared libraryHTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luauser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersnononoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency in HA-Clusternone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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