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

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraIn-memory JavaScript DBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbblueflood.iogithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpouchdb.comvitess.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpouchdb.com/­guidesvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperRackspaceApache Software FoundationThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20192013201420122013
Current release7.1.1, June 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP RESTJavaScript APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScriptAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
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 CassandranoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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 backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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