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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Oracle vs. Solr vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Widely used RDBMS

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.oracle.com/database

solr.apache.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.oracle.com/en/database

solr.apache.org/resources.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2019

2013

1980

2006

2016

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

23c, September 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can be realized in PL/SQL

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

isolation level can be parameterized

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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