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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 cachingAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.memcached.orgswaydb.simer.auvitess.iowakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikivitess.io/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperAmazonDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSimer PlahaThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWakanda SAS
Initial release20122003201820132012
Current release1.6.25, March 202415.0.2, December 20222.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCScalaGoC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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 indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntaxyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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