DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.datomic.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.datomic.com

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Cognitect

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2019

2013

2012

2010

1992

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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