DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Snowflake

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

firebase.google.com/docs/database

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Atos Convergence Creators

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2019

2016

2012

2014

Current release

1703

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

yes

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

selectable replication factor

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

LDAP bind authentication

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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