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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GraphDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/orientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperAmazonOntotextChris DavisCirconus LLC.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20122000200620172010
Current release10.4, October 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynoyes, in LuaJava, Javascript
TriggersnonononoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)noneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoConstraint checkingnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.nonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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Amazon CloudSearchGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGraphiteIRONdbOrientDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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