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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Apache Impala

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Name

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	14.03
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

impala.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.1.0, June 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

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Recent citations in the news

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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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