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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SurrealDB

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­aurorawww.ehcache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGElasticIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20152009201020102022
Current release3.10.0, March 20228.6, January 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlangRust
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-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 indexesyesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JCacheJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby using Terracotta ServeryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesMemcached and Redis integrationno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes, based on authentication and database rules

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