DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. MariaDB vs. Netezza

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. MariaDB vs. Netezza

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	83.44
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.esgyn.cn

greptime.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.greptime.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

IBM

Initial release

2019

2015

2022

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2000

Current release

11.5.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux

included in appliance

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Python

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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