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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/boltdb/bolt

dgraph.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

dgraph.io/docs

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2019

2013

2016

1984

2013

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

yes

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

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

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