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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. Dgraph vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.datomic.comdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cn
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.datomic.comdgraph.io/­docs
DeveloperCognitectDgraph Labs, Inc.Drizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerEsgyn
Initial release20192012201620082015
Current release1.0.7075, December 20237.2.4, September 2012
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoC++C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PHP
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoJava Stored Procedures
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication between multi datacenters
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnono infoPlanned for future releasesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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