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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 cloudHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourceshugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonExasolBaiduCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122000201820172004
Current release0.9V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes, in Luayes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsnono

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