DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Amazon

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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