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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Drill vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OushuDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbdrill.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdrill.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software FoundationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Oushu
Initial release201920122010
Current release1.20.3, January 20234.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantnoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyesHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesDepending on the underlying data sourceAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseKerberos, SSL and role based access

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