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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Badger vs. H2GIS vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Spatial extension of H2

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2gis.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

DGraph Labs

CNRS

Microsoft

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2019

2017

2013

1989

2004

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

yes

based on H2

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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