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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ToroDB vs. Yanza

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

github.com/torodb/server

yanza.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

firebase.google.com/docs/database

Developer

Google

acquired by Google 2014

8Kdata

Yanza

Initial release

2019

2012

2016

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights for users and roles

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