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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblazegraph.comwww.ehcache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwiki.blazegraph.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenNMS GroupSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122006200920142001
Current release2.1.5, March 20193.10.0, March 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoRDF literal typesyesyesno
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 indexedyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
JCacheHTTP REST
Java API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaJavaC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
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 Graphsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
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)nonono

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