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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Blueflood vs. Fauna vs. LokiJS vs. PouchDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.In-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeDocument store
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Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#143  Overall
#26  Document stores
#13  Graph DBMS
#66  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbblueflood.iofauna.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.fauna.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperRackspaceFauna, Inc.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20192013201420142012
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonono
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
JavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoIdentity management, authentication, and access controlnono

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