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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kinetica vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Quasardb

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOracles in-memory data grid solutionDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.kinetica.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencequasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperAmazonInterSystemsKineticaOraclequasardb
Initial release20122018201220072009
Current release2023.3, June 20237.1, August 202114.1, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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