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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Firebird vs. JanusGraph vs. Splunk vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017Analytics Platform for Big DataA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.94
Rank#129  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.orgjanusgraph.orgwww.splunk.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.janusgraph.orgdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAmazonFirebird FoundationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusSplunk Inc.
Initial release20122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201720032009
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLyesyesno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerAccess rights for users and rolesno

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