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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. Infobright vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.gbase.cn

ignite.apache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

origodb.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

origodb.com/docs

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2019

2004

2015

2005

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

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

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Role based authorization

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