DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

manual.manticoresearch.com

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Manticore Software

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2019

2005

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

Can index from XML

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Go
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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

atomic operations within a single document possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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