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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Elasticsearch

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene info

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.99
Rank	#173	Overall
	#28	Document stores

Score	153.84
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

Developer

Elastic

Initial release

2019

2010

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source info

Apache Version 2; Elastic License

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free info

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency info

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts info

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

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Elasticsearch is an open source search and analytics engine. As the heart of the...
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Competitive advantages

Open source Real-time indexsearch, and analysis Horizontally scalable Distributed...
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Typical application scenarios

Enterprise search (search experiences for your workplace, apps, and websites), observability...
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Key customers

Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft,...
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Market metrics

Public as of October 2018 Distributed workforce with 1900+ employees around the globe...
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Licensing and pricing models

The Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash) is free and open source...
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