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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Neptune vs. SQL.JS vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Neptune  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, reliable graph database built for the cloudPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.29
Rank#113  Overall
#9  Graph DBMS
#5  RDF stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptunesql.js.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­neptune/­developer-resourcessql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazonAmazonAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersSimer PlahaTimescale
Initial release20122017201220182017
Current release2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptScalaC
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIOpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptJava
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
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.nonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith encyption-at-restno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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