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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Blueflood vs. EXASOL vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcambridgesemantics.com/­anzographblueflood.iowww.exasol.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.exasol.com/­resourcessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCambridge SemanticsRackspaceExasolSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122018201320002001
Current release2.3, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportpredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.noyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
HTTP REST.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
Java
Lua
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication in MPP-Clusterselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoKerberos/HDFS data loadingnoyes infoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infonot needed in graphsnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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