DBMS > Altibase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. MongoDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoMesa vs. MongoDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.geomesa.org

www.mongodb.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Altibase

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

CCRi and others

MongoDB, Inc

8Kdata

Initial release

1999

2014

2009

2016

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

5.0.0, May 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

depending on storage layer

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

depending on storage layer

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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