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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#307	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2019

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2010

Current release

2.3, January 2021

11.2, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

Ingres Replicator

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

not needed in graphs

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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