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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. NCache vs. OrientDB vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

orientdb.org

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Amazon

Alachisoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2005

2010

2006

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

All OS with a Java VM

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

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Java, Javascript

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Notifications

Hooks

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

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