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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. EJDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. EJDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document 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
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptunegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.md
DeveloperAmazonAmazonSoftmotions
Initial release201220172012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_id
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.no
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
in-process shared library
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenone
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.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoRead/Write Locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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