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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrientDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBOracles in-memory data grid solutionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceorientdb.orgwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperAmazonIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OracleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20122010200720102006
Current release14.1, August 20233.2.29, March 20248.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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 indexedyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava, Javascriptno
Triggersnoyesyes infoLive EventsHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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