| Editorial information provided by DB-Tools |
| System |
| Name |
ElasticSearch |
Amazon DynamoDB |
| Version |
Version 6.4.1 (released in September 2018)
|
released Jan 2012 |
| Drawbacks |
Elasticsearch AMI not available |
Very few features when compared to other key-value stores |
| Advantages |
Large number of drivers present for integration |
Managed Database Service provided by a leading cloud provider |
| Languages Supported |
.Net
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby |
Java, Node.js, Go, C# .NET, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell and Erlang. |
| Website |
www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch |
aws.amazon.com/dynamodb |
| XML Support |
no |
no |
| JSON Support |
yes |
yes |
| Brief description |
Elasticsearch is a search engine based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. |
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data structures[2] and is offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio |
| Database Model |
Key Value NoSQL Model |
Key Value Model |
| Technical Documentation |
www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html |
aws.amazon.com/documentation/dynamodb |
| License |
Open Source. Commercial version with HA available with redislabs.com |
commercial on aws cloud. |
| Cloud-based / SaaS |
ElasticSearch Cloud Cluster available from ElasticSearch |
Yes but you can download dynamod db locally as well. Local installation does not have vendor support |
| Implementation Language |
C,C++ |
C++ |
| Operating System Supported |
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
|
Linux , OS X, Windows |
| Options for Integration / Access API |
Proprietary protocol using JSON |
Rest API |
| Consistency |
Highly Consistent |
Immediate consistency |
| Foreign Keys |
No |
No |
| Streaming Support |
Yes |
No |
| Analytics Support |
NA |
NA |
| Data Storage Schema |
Inverted Index |
Key Value Model |
| Notable Users |
-- |
As per Amazon the solution has been deployed by around 100,000 customers |
| Key Differentiator |
No known Enterprise Competitor apart from Amazaon Cloud Search |
Amazon allows developers to purchase a service based on throughput, rather than storage. |
| Concurrency |
Yes |
Yes |
| Partitioning |
Yes |
Sharding |
| Replication |
Yes |
Multi Data Center Replication supported |
| Secondary Indexes |
Yes |
Yes |
| SchemaLess |
Yes |
Yes |
| SQL Query |
No |
No |
