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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NebulaGraph vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NebulaGraph vs. Splice Machine

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNebulaGraph  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWell established RDBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMSOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.23
Rank#116  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­vesoft-inc/­nebula
www.nebula-graph.io
splicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.nebula-graph.iosplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAmazonActian CorporationMicrosoftVesoft Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201620192014
Current release11.2, May 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesStrong typed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoNebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis infoORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLuser defined functionsyes infoJava
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding, horizontal partitioningShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSIngres ReplicatoryesCausal Clustering using Raft protocolMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyes infoRelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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Amazon CloudSearchIngresMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNebulaGraphSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsNebulaGraph is a truly distributed, linearly scalable, lightning-fast graph database,...
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Competitive advantagesNebulaGraph boasts the world's only graph database solution that is able to host...
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Typical application scenariosSocial networking Fraud detection Knowledge graph Data warehouse management Anti...
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Key customersCompanies from a variety of industries have implemented NebulaGraph Database in production,...
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Market metricsAt our very early stage, NebulaGraph has already received over 10,000 stars on GitHub...
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Licensing and pricing modelsNebulaGraph is open source and free to use under Apache 2.0 license.
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