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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rdf4j.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rdf4j.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SiteWhere

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

predefined scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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