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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GBase vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	17.31
Rank	#33	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.gbase.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2019

2004

2021

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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