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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. RDF4J vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  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.Well established RDBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresrdf4j.org/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazonClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleActian CorporationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release201219831974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20042009
Current release19.4.1, November 202111.2, May 20223.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostediOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 formatno infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesPHPJava
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyesErlang
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Ingres Replicatornoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Security

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