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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dgraph vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	1.88
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	1.34
Rank	#157	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	3.09
Rank	#84	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	142.50
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

dgraph.io

www.pinecone.io

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

dgraph.io/docs

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2019

2016

2019

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

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

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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