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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Spark SQL

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdbphoenix.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencespark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesphoenix.apache.orgdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationOracleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20122019201420072014
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 201914.1, August 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneShardingShardingyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
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 signaturesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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