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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. Linter vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Cachelot.io vs. Dragonfly vs. Linter vs. Memcached

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory caching systemA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceRDBMS for high security requirementsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcachelot.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
linter.ruwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonDragonflyDB team and community contributorsrelex.ruDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20122015202319902003
Current release1.0, March 20231.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C and C++C
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freescheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnostrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesno
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 indexednonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIMemcached protocolProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuayes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationnone 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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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