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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. OrientDB vs. WakandaDB

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 cloudData 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)WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/orientdb.orgwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisCirconus LLC.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPWakanda SAS
Initial release20122006201720102012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20183.2.29, March 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++JavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
LinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query language, no joinsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in LuaJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersnononoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes

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