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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Jena - TDB vs. BigchainDB vs. GeoSpock vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A RDF storage and query DBMS, shipped as an optional-use component of the Apache Jena framework

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.75
Rank	#84	Overall
	#3	RDF stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

www.bigchaindb.com

geospock.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/index.html

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

originally developed by HP Labs

GeoSpock

Initial release

2012

2000

2016

2009

Current release

4.9.0, July 2023

2.0, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Java, Javascript

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Fuseki

REST-style SPARQL HTTP Interface
Jena RDF API
RIO

RDF Input/Output

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via event handler

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

TDB Transactions

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access control via Jena Security

yes

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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