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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.08
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.47
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score95.03
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score0.72
Rank#234  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.commanticoresearch.commariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmanual.manticoresearch.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­libraryrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonExasolManticore SoftwareMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2012200020172009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 19952004
Current release6.0, February 202311.3.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes infoDynamic columns are supportedyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.noCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3yes
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedseveral options for horizontal partitioning and Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infonot for in-memory storage engineyes 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.yesyes infowith MEMORY storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Amazon CloudSearchEXASOLManticore SearchMariaDBRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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