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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Ignite vs. Memcached

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbhazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantignite.apache.orgwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantapacheignite.readme.io/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20192008201020152003
Current release5.3.6, November 2023Apache Ignite 2.61.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++, Java, .NetC
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnoyes infoEventsyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual ConsistencyImmediate 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 operationsone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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