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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. HarperDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. Drizzle vs. HarperDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHarperDB
Initial release2019201320082017
Current release7.2.4, September 20123.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++Node.js
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoJSON data types
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
GoC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1
Triggersnonono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsyesACIDAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and roles

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