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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. Ignite

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparison
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 durabilityFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnignite.apache.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.datomic.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperCognitectFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release201920122000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20042015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20235.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++C, Java, PythonC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsPSQLuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
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 peersSource-replica replicationyesyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
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 possiblenoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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