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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Rockset vs. YDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  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 WhisperA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webrockset.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.rockset.comydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperAmazonChris DavisRocksetYandex
Initial release2012200620192019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languagePythonC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlydynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneyesActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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