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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Cassandra vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. SAP IQ

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcassandra.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopensearch.org/­docs/­latesthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOpenNMS GroupAmazon Web ServicesSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20192008201420211994
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.5.0, January 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on CassandraShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon DocumentDBCassandraNewtsOpenSearchSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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