DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. SQream DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Google BigQuery vs. SQream DB vs. TigerGraph

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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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery

sqream.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.sqream.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Google

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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)

Role-based access control

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