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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQL.JS

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/memgraph.comwww.postgres-xl.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmemgraph.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAmazonCirconus LLC.Memgraph LtdAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2012201720172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Amazon CloudSearchIRONdbMemgraphPostgres-XLSQL.JS
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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