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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Derby vs. MySQL vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

druid.apache.org

db.apache.org/derby

www.mysql.com

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tencent

Initial release

2019

2012

1997

1995

2013

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic 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

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication

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)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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