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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. OceanBase

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

machbase.com

en.oceanbase.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

machbase.com/dbms

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

Developer

Amazon

Machbase

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

4.3.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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