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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigchainDB vs. FoundationDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. IRONdb

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperFoundationDBIBMCirconus LLC.
Initial release2019201620131983 infohost version2017
Current release6.2.28, November 202012.1, October 2016V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes, in Lua
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factoryesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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