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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Geode vs. SWC-DB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Phoenix vs. Geode vs. SWC-DB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbphoenix.apache.orggeode.apache.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesphoenix.apache.orggeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperApache Software FoundationOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Alex KashirinYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20192014200220202017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20191.1, February 20170.5, April 20212.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C++C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnonoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDyes, on a single nodeDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyAccess rights per client and object definableyes
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Amazon DocumentDBApache PhoenixGeodeSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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