DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo

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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

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sqlite.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Elastic

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2019

2010

2015

2000

2023

Current release

8.6, January 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

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

via file-system locks

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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

using Azure authentication

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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