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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. GigaSpaces vs. ObjectBox

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.20
Rank#119  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptunewww.gigaspaces.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperAmazonAmazonGigaspaces TechnologiesObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012201720002017
Current release15.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyes, event driven architectureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnone
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.Multi-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
online/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Role-based access controlyes
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