DB-EnginesextremeDB - solve IoT connectivity disruptionsEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by Redgate Software

DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Postgres-XL vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA multi-model DBMS and application serverBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#202  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.postgres-xl.orgvelocitydb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.intersystems.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidevitess.io/­docs
DeveloperAmazonInterSystemsVelocityDB IncThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release201219972014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20112013
Current release2018.1.4, May 202010 R1, October 20187.x15.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageCC#Go
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NETDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NetADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows AuthenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon CloudSearchInterSystems CachéPostgres-XLVelocityDBVitess
DB-Engines blog posts

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

The DB-Engines ranking includes now search engines
4 February 2013, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

Transition from Amazon CloudSearch to Amazon OpenSearch Service
25 July 2024, AWS Blog

AWS to discontinue Cloud9, CodeCommit, CloudSearch and several other services
31 July 2024, Neowin

AWS is quietly killing off some services under its new CEO
31 July 2024, The Stack

Amazon CloudSearch – Start Searching in One Hour for Less Than $100 / Month
12 April 2012, AWS Blog

AWS closes several cloud services to new customers
8 August 2024, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Further insights on and thoughts about the Oracle acquisition of Cerner
22 December 2021, telecareaware.com

Announcing IBM Spectrum Sentinel: Building a Cyber Resilient Future
24 June 2022, ibm.com

Associative Data Modeling Demystified – Part1
9 July 2016, Data Science Central

Choosing a Database Technology. A roadmap and process overview | by Shirish Joshi
23 February 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Deepthi Sigireddi on Distributed Database Architecture in the Cloud Native Era
20 May 2024, InfoQ.com

They scaled YouTube — now they’ll shard everyone with PlanetScale
13 December 2018, TechCrunch

PlanetScale Unveils Distributed MySQL Database Service Based on Vitess
18 May 2021, Datanami

PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data
24 March 2022, The Register

CNCF’s Vitess Scales MySQL with the Help of Kubernetes
9 February 2018, The New Stack

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The data platform to build your intelligent applications.
Try it free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here