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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. LokiJS vs. SiriDB

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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

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

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

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dgraph.io

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dgraph.io/docs

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Esgyn

Cesbit

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

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

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Synchronous replication via Raft

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Planned for future releases

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Recent citations in the news

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25 July 2024, AWS Blog

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31 July 2024, Neowin

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