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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Badger vs. Snowflake vs. YDB

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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.

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

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational 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	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.snowflake.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

DGraph Labs

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2019

2017

2014

2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

none

yes

Active-passive shard 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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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