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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.comwww.esgyn.cncloud.google.com/­datastoretinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
DeveloperAmazonCognitectEsgynGoogle
Initial release20122012201520082009
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++, JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, details hereyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (GQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava Stored Proceduresusing Google App Engineno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactionsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)no

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