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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. EJDB vs. PostGIS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

postgis.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

postgis.net/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Softmotions

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2019

2012

2005

1998

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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)

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins 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

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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