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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Linter vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

RDBMS for high security requirements

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

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

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.esgyn.cn

linter.ru

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Amazon

Esgyn

relex.ru

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2019

2012

2015

1990

2012

Current release

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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