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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.bigchaindb.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Oracle

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2016

2007

2006

Current release

14.1, August 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

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