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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Memgraph vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Memgraph vs. Splunk vs. Vitess

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 WhisperAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmemgraph.comwww.splunk.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphite.readthedocs.iomemgraph.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkvitess.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisMemgraph LtdSplunk Inc.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122006201720032013
Current release15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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Amazon CloudSearchGraphiteMemgraphSplunkVitess
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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