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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenQM vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  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 data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeMultivalue DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gigaspaces.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmrdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonGigaspaces TechnologiesIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Rocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122000201019932004
Current release15.5, September 20203.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyes infoRDF Schemas
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.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesyes
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelno

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