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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Graph Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. Ehcache vs. Graph Engine

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iowww.ehcache.orgwww.graphengine.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iowww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manual
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AGMicrosoft
Initial release2012201520092010
Current release3.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and C
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VM.NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuanoyes
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyes infoby using Terracotta Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnono

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