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DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelKey-value storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.81
Rank#213  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbblazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgeazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwiki.blazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAmazonBlazegraphElasticFairCom CorporationMicrosoft
Initial release20072006201019792016
Current release2.1.5, March 20198.6, January 2023V3, October 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infoRDF literal typesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query languageyes infoANSI SQL queriesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Transact SQL
Triggersnonoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsnoyes infowhen using SQLno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
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.Memcached and Redis integrationyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.yes

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