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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. StarRocks

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational 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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAmazonDgraph Labs, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2012201620102020
Current release2.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesno infoPlanned for future releasesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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