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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Hazelcast vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineA widely adopted in-memory data gridDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcouchdb.apache.orgwww.graphengine.iohazelcast.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerMicrosoftHazelcastIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20192005201020082010
Current release3.3.3, December 20235.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageErlang.NET and CJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
.NETAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoEventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
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
Source-replica replication
yes infoReplicated MapMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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