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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. FoundationDB vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesapple.github.io/­foundationdbwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFoundationDBThomas MuellerAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20192013200520132008
Current release6.2.28, November 20202.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnosupported in specific SQL layer onlyyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblein SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon DocumentDBFoundationDBH2InfluxDBSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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