DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. ClickHouse vs. EsgynDB vs. NuoDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

clickhouse.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

clickhouse.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Amazon

Clickhouse Inc.

Esgyn

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2013

2007

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

key based and custom

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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