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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. LokiJS

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score16.88
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbaws.amazon.com/­redshiftgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshifttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker
Initial release2019201220082014
Current release7.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC
C++
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin PythonnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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