DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Ignite vs. OpenSearch vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

ignite.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

graphite.readthedocs.io

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Amazon

Chris Davis

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon Web Services

Rocket Software

Initial release

2012

2006

2015

2021

1985

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

C++, Java, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

optional

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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