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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Graphite vs. HugeGraph vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.iohugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationChris DavisBaiduYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20122018200620182017
Current release1.1.0, April 20230.92.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaPythonJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesyesyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Native API
HTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)noneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
noneEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesnoUsers, roles and permissionsyes
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Amazon CloudSearchApache IoTDBGraphiteHugeGraphYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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