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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Memcached vs. Netezza vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.memcached.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaswaydb.simer.auwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalIBMSimer PlahaWakanda SAS
Initial release20122003200020182012
Current release1.6.25, March 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyes

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