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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. SQLite vs. Stardog

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.snowflake.comwww.sqlite.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchkairosdb.github.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonSnowflake Computing Inc.Dwayne Richard HippStardog-Union
Initial release20122013201420002010
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes infodynamic column typesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.noyesnono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
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
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyesyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on Cassandrayesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesnoneMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturessimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationnoAccess rights for users and roles

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