DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. RocksDB vs. Stardog vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. RocksDB vs. Stardog vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

rocksdb.org

www.stardog.com

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.stardog.com

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Amazon

Facebook, Inc.

Stardog-Union

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

1984

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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