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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperFoundationDBEmbarcadero
Initial release2019201320131984
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneyesInterbase Change Views
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 ConsistencynoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoin SQL-layer onlyyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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