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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Druid vs. FoundationDB vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbdruid.apache.orggithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFoundationDBTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2019201220131987
Current release29.0.1, April 20246.2.28, November 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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