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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. EJDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dgraph.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.esgyn.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dgraph.io/docs

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Softmotions

Esgyn

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2012

2016

2012

2015

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

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12 April 2012, AWS Blog

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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19 November 2014, AWS Blog

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