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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#96  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­analyticdb-for-mysqlaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcouchdb.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­doc-detail/­93776.htmdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2012201920052010
Current release3.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnoyes
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Implementation languageErlangErlang
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoView functions in JavaScriptView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes infoOptimistic locking
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQLAmazon CloudSearchAmazon DocumentDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"IBM Cloudant
Specific characteristicsA real-time data warehousing service that can process PB data with high concurrency...
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