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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Blueflood vs. HBase

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblazegraph.comblueflood.iohbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwiki.blazegraph.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphRackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2012200620132008
Current release2.1.5, March 20192.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)noAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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