DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. RocksDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. RocksDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.datomic.com

duckdb.org

rocksdb.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.datomic.com

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2019

2012

2018

2013

2015

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.10, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal 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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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