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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Kylin vs. GigaSpaces vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.25
Rank	#170	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

kylin.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Gigaspaces Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2019

2015

2000

2021

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

15.5, September 2020

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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