DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hazelcast vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hazelcast vs. MariaDB vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hazelcast.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

memgraph.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2017

2012

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

with snapshot isolation

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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