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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Drill vs. Infobright vs. Realm

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.58
Rank#112  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score2.28
Rank#119  Overall
#23  Document stores
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.00
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptunedrill.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbrealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdrill.apache.org/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software FoundationIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20122017201220052014
Current release1.20.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnonononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Depending on the underlying data sourcefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesyes

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