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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. SAP IQ

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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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Event Store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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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	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.eventstore.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

developers.eventstore.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Amazon

Event Store Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2019

2012

1994

Current release

21.2, February 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

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

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate 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

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 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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