DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. Hypertable vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NuoDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dgraph.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

dgraph.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Amazon

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Hypertable Inc.

Microsoft

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2014

2013

Current release

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

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

C++ API
Thrift

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Planned for future releases

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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