DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.20
Rank	#119	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/neptune

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

Amazon

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Initial release

2012

2017

2008

2010

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-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.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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