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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigchainDB vs. Dgraph vs. GeoMesa vs. JaguarDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.bigchaindb.comdgraph.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdgraph.io/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.html
DeveloperAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.CCRi and othersDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20122016201620142015
Current release5.0.0, May 20243.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoScalaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languages
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyesdepending on storage layerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagerights management via user accounts

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