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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. HBase vs. IRONdb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdgraph.iohbase.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdgraph.io/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetCirconus LLC.
Initial release2012201620082017
Current release2.3.4, January 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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