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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. Drizzle vs. Ehcache vs. Newts

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblazegraph.comwww.ehcache.orgopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwiki.blazegraph.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenNMS Group
Initial release20122006200820092014
Current release2.1.5, March 20197.2.4, September 20123.10.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesyes
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 indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JDBCJCacheHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
JavaJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesSecurity and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnono

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