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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Phoenix vs. CouchDB vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

phoenix.apache.org

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Dwayne Richard Hipp

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2014

2005

2000

2001

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

3.3.3, December 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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