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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. H2 vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.h2database.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperFairCom CorporationThomas MuellerCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20191979200520132010
Current releaseV3, October 20202.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++JavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
JavaJavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes infowhen using SQLyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per database

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