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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

greptime.com

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.greptime.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Amazon

Greptime Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2022

2014

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

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

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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