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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Geode vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TerarkDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOracles in-memory data grid solutionA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgeode.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencebytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20122002201020072016
Current release1.1, February 201714.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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 indexednoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights per client and object definableAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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