DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. JanusGraph vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. JanusGraph vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.janusgraph.org

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Amazon

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2017

2012

2006

2000

Current release

0.6.3, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

8.0

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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