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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blazegraph vs. PieCloudDB

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.75
Rank	#219	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

blazegraph.com

www.openpie.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

wiki.blazegraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Blazegraph

OpenPie

Initial release

2012

2006

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

2.1, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

extended commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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Recent citations in the news

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16 April 2012, Forbes

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