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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. OpenEdge vs. Stardog

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Application development environment with integrated database management systemEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score128.79
Rank#8  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score1.93
Rank#121  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cnwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Progress Software CorporationStardog-Union
Initial release20122010200419842010
Current release8.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cOpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoclose to SQL 92Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyesuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesUsers and groupsAccess rights for users and roles

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