DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. Blazegraph vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Axibase vs. Blazegraph vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

blazegraph.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

wiki.blazegraph.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Amazon

Axibase Corporation

Blazegraph

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2012

2013

2006

2021

Current release

15585

2.1.5, March 2019

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

RDF literal types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships 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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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