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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Ehcache

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Ehcache

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblazegraph.comwww.ehcache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwiki.blazegraph.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAmazonBlazegraphTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AG
Initial release2014201220062009
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoRDF literal typesyes
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 indexesnoyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSPARQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JCache
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersyesnonoyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Server
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoRelationships in Graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resource
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approach
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)no

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