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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.19
Rank	#176	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#344	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

iotdb.apache.org

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2018

2009

Current release

1.1.0, April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Native API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

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