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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NCache

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	134.78
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	5.71
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Amazon

Elastic

Microsoft

Alachisoft

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2005

Current release

8.6, January 2023

5.3, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic 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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

using Azure authentication

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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