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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FileMaker vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JaguarDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#15  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014DataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release2012198320102015
Current release19.4.1, November 20213.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPHPC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesno
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 replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accounts

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