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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. ClickHouse vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

clickhouse.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

memgraph.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

clickhouse.com/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Memgraph Ltd

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2019

2016

2010

2017

2018

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

key based and custom

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

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