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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph vs. Memgraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JanusGraph vs. Memgraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.08
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.79
Rank#113  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.04
Rank#135  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
Score3.09
Rank#105  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantjanusgraph.orgmemgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.janusgraph.orgmemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMemgraph Ltd
Initial release2012201020172017
Current release0.6.3, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
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 signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers, roles and permissions
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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