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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Hive vs. TigerGraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Scioredata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhive.apache.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperAmazonAmazonApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release2012200720122017
Current release3.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and rolesRole-based access control

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