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

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

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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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

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

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hazelcast.com

memgraph.com

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

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Hazelcast

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2012

2013

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

yes

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

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

with snapshot isolation

optimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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