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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. LokiJS vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#235  Overall
#108  Relational DBMS
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchphoenix.apache.orgtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonApache Software FoundationOracle
Initial release2012201420142007
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBCJavaScript APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnonoyesyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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