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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. TerarkDB

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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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2018

2008

2013

2016

Current release

2.3, January 2021

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Data scheme

yes

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Automatic sharding

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

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