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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Machbase Neo vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchmachbase.comswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperElasticMachbaseSimer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20192010201320182019
Current release8.6, January 2023V8.0, August 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCScalaClojure
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesselectable replication factornoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)ES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual 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 possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlno

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