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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigchainDB vs. BigObject vs. CockroachDB vs. MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.bigchaindb.com

bigobject.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.bigobject.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cockroach Labs

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2019

2016

2015

2009

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Python

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

yes

optional, enabled by default

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Role-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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