DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dgraph vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Dgraph vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQL.JS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

dgraph.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sql.js.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

dgraph.io/docs

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2019

2016

2008

2012

2000

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

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

JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

Synchronous replication via Raft

none

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

none

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Planned for future releases

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