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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Drill vs. Apache Phoenix vs. NuoDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#123	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org

phoenix.apache.org

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

drill.apache.org/docs

phoenix.apache.org

doc.nuodb.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2006

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java, SQL

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

tunable commit protocol

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Depending on the underlying data source

Access Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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