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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Immudb vs. Memcached vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.memcached.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.immudb.io

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Codenotary

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

SAP

Initial release

2012

2020

2003

2010

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

1.6.29, June 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

yes

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