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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dgraph vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

JSqlDB 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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

dgraph.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

dgraph.io/docs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Initial release

2019

2016

2018

2014

Current release

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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