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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BoltDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceAn embedded key-value store for Go.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltobjectbox.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20192013201720092001
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++ErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
GoC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoyesyes, using Riak Securityno
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