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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. VelocityDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.marklogic.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersMarkLogic Corp.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122009201420012011
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, May 202411.0, December 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C#
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL92no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCacheJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layeryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsBased on Windows Authentication

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