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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Dgraph vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltdgraph.iowww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdgraph.io/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release2019201320162014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2013
Current release10 R1, October 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoGoCC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
GoC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsno
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneSynchronous replication via Raftyes
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsyesACIDACID infoMVCCyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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