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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Derby vs. FileMaker vs. MongoDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

db.apache.org/derby

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.mongodb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

MongoDB, Inc

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2019

1997

1983

2009

2018

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

6.0.7, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java

PHP

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

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

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
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

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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