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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Derby vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbbigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derbycloud.google.com/­datastore
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.bigobject.iodb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Apache Software FoundationGoogle
Initial release2019201519972008
Current release10.17.1.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, details here
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (GQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuaJava Stored Proceduresusing Google App Engine
TriggersnonoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxos
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflow
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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