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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Memcached

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonDGraph LabsCommunity supported by Red HatDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20122017201620142003
Current release1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoPythonJavaC
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyesnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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