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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dgraph vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dgraph vs. FoundationDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbdgraph.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdgraph.io/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.FoundationDBEmbarcadero
Initial release20192016201319842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release6.2.28, November 2020InterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageGoC++CC
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoin SQL-layer onlyyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSynchronous replication via RaftyesInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoin SQL-layer onlyyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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