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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. BigObject vs. CouchDB vs. NCache vs. OrigoDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreA fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchbigobject.iocouchdb.apache.orgwww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheorigodb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.bigobject.iodocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonBigObject, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerAlachisoftRobert Friberg et al
Initial release20122015200520052009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnopartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and CounterUser defined using .NET types and collections
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 infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaView functions in JavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes
Triggersnonoyesyes infoNotificationsyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0yeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnonodepending on model
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleoptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)Role based authorization
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Amazon CloudSearchBigObjectCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"NCacheOrigoDB
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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