DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

graphite.readthedocs.io

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Apache Software Foundation

Chris Davis

Baidu

Initial release

2012

2018

2006

2018

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
Unix

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

restricted

yes

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native API

HTTP API
Sockets

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

none

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users, roles and permissions

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