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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Sphinx vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.87
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#319  Overall
#141  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#344  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.esgyn.cngeospock.comsphinxsearch.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonEsgynGeoSpockSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201520012009
Current release2.0, September 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaJava, JavascriptC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexedyestemporal, categoricalyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCProprietary protocolTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.optional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenono

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