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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. OpenSearch vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	15.65
Rank	#38	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

opensearch.org/docs/latest

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Amazon Web Services

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2021

2014

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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