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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. CockroachDB vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. Transbase

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.In-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.cockroachlabs.com/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsMonetDB BVTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20192015201420041987
Current release24.1.0, May 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptCC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCJavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication using RAFTnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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