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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GBase vs. Memcached vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GBase vs. Memcached vs. Sqrrl

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.gbase.cnwww.memcached.orgsqrrl.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release2012200420032012
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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