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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Ingres vs. LokiJS vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
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.Well established RDBMSIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRDF 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
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.actian.com/­ingrestechfort.github.io/­LokiJSrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonExasolActian CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201220001974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20142004
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JavaScript APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSIngres Replicatornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes 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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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