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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. ScyllaDB vs. SQream DB vs. Stardog vs. TinkerGraph

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.scylladb.comsqream.comwww.stardog.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.scylladb.comdocs.sqream.comdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperAmazonScyllaDBSQream TechnologiesStardog-Union
Initial release20122015201720102009
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20242022.1.6, December 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infocluster global secondary indicesnoyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Luauser defined functions in Pythonuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
Triggersnononoyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Clusternone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoin-memory tablesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and rolesno
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Amazon CloudSearchScyllaDBSQream DBStardogTinkerGraph
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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