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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. gStore vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. gStore vs. Hive vs. IRONdb vs. RDF4J

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchen.gstore.cnhive.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookCirconus LLC.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20122016201220172004
Current release1.2, November 20233.1.3, April 2022V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes, in Luayes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnono

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