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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 WhisperDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webquasar.aigithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphite.readthedocs.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisquasardbJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2012200620092019
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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