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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Faircom DB vs. QuestDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Search engine

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Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	2.81
Rank	#98	Overall
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

questdb.io

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

questdb.io/docs

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

FairCom Corporation

QuestDB Technology Inc

Transwarp

Initial release

2019

1979

2014

Current release

V13, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

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

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID for single-table writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

through memory mapped files

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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