DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BaseX vs. GreptimeDB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BaseX vs. GreptimeDB vs. TimesTen

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

basex.org

greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.basex.org

docs.greptime.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Greptime Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2019

2007

2022

1998

Current release

10.7, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
» more

Competitive advantages

- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
» more

Typical application scenarios

For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
» more

Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
» more

Market metrics

GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

A hybrid approach for homogeneous migration to an Amazon DocumentDB elastic cluster | Amazon Web Services
4 June 2024, AWS Blog

AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service
16 May 2024, AWS Blog

Use LangChain and vector search on Amazon DocumentDB to build a generative AI chatbot | Amazon Web Services
20 May 2024, AWS Blog

Vector search for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now generally available | Amazon Web Services
29 November 2023, AWS Blog

AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB I/O-Optimized
21 November 2023, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

XML Injection Attacks: What to Know About XPath, XQuery, XXE & More
18 May 2022, Hashed Out by The SSL Store™

9 Skills You Need to Become a Data Engineer
2 November 2022, KDnuggets

provided by Google News

Share this page