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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Bangdb vs. Graphite

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

bangdb.com

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.bangdb.com

graphite.readthedocs.io

Developer

Amazon

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Chris Davis

Initial release

2012

2006

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Unix

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

Numeric data only

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

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

yes (enterprise version only)

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Recent citations in the news

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month | Amazon Web Services
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

Amazon CloudSearch – Even Better Searching for Less Than $100/Month | Amazon Web Services
24 March 2014, AWS Blog

Amazon Takes On Google And Microsoft With CloudSearch
16 April 2012, Forbes

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2 June 2020, TechTarget

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21 October 2014, AWS Blog

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29 October 2019, TechTarget

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1 April 2022, Datanami

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23 January 2015, InfoQ.com

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