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

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn 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 PostgreSQLA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
swaydb.simer.auwww.timescale.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchhugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.timescale.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBaiduSimer PlahaTimescaleJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122018201820172019
Current release0.92.15.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaCClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnononoyesno
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 HBasenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnovia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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