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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. FoundationDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/orientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchapple.github.io/­foundationdbgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonFoundationDBChris DavisCirconus LLC.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20122013200620172010
Current release6.2.28, November 2020V0.10.20, January 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++PythonC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 indexednononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlynoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlynoyes, in LuaJava, Javascript
TriggersnonononoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnononoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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