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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2GIS vs. JanusGraph vs. Oracle Rdb

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org

janusgraph.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.janusgraph.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

Developer

Amazon

CNRS

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

1984

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

HP Open VMS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

based on H2

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

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

yes

based on H2

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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