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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. Graphite

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	61.90
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#75	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Amazon

Google

Chris Davis

Initial release

2012

2010

2006

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

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

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

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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