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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
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 WhisperFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.kinetica.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release2012200620122003
Current release7.1, August 20211.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC, C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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