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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. ArangoDB vs. NCache

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbphoenix.apache.orgarangodb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­ncache
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesphoenix.apache.orgdocs.arangodb.comwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperApache Software FoundationArangoDB Inc.Alachisoft
Initial release2019201420122005
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.11.5, November 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashpartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsJavaScriptno infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR
Triggersnononoyes infoNotifications
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infosince version 2.0yes
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
Source-replica replication with configurable replication factoryes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Hadoop integrationno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDoptimistic locking and pessimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon DocumentDBApache PhoenixArangoDBNCache
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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NCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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NCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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