DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Memgraph vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB

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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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial 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	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com

nsdb.io

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

memgraph.com/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

rethinkdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Memgraph Ltd

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2017

2009

Current release

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC based

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

yes

users and table-level permissions

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