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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Blueflood vs. H2GIS vs. TerminusDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of H2Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbangdb.comblueflood.iowww.h2gis.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bangdb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­hometerminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBRackspaceCNRSDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122012201320132018
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infobased on H2yes
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infobased on CassandranoneGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on H2Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes (enterprise version only)noyes infobased on H2Role-based access control

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