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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FileMaker vs. Geode vs. Heroic

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series 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
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakergeode.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroic
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Spotify
Initial release2012198320022014
Current release19.4.1, November 20211.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 formatnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights per client and object definable

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