DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Coveo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Coveo vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

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

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.coveo.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.coveo.com

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

Coveo

Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2007

1994

Current release

14.1, August 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate 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

yes

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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)

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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