DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Amazon

GeoSpock

Google

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2010

2016

2009

Current release

2.0, September 2019

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Automatic sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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