DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. NCache vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. NCache vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. RocksDB

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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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Widely used in-process key-value store

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

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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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	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

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

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

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

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cambridge Semantics

Alachisoft

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2019

2018

2005

1994

2013

Current release

2.3, January 2021

5.3.3, April 2024

18.1.40, May 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

yes

none

horizontal partitioning

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

not needed in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

yes

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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