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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. HugeGraph vs. Infobright vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. HugeGraph vs. Infobright vs. SwayDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbswaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAmazonBaiduIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Simer PlahaTimescale
Initial release20122018200520182017
Current release0.92.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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