DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Geode vs. Kinetica vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.kinetica.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Kinetica

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2002

2012

Current release

1.1, February 2017

7.1, August 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights per client and object definable

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

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