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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSRDF storeSearch engineSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmemgraph.comrdf4j.orgsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchmemgraph.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonMemgraph LtdSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20122017200420012003
Current release3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication using RAFTnonenoneMulti-source replication
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 integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
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 signaturesUsers, roles and permissionsnonoAccess rights for users and roles
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