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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. Stardog

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com

www.stardog.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Amazon

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

SADAS s.r.l.

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2012

2005

2017

2006

2010

Current release

8.0

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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