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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GBase vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	Amazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison	GBase  Xexclude from comparison	Riak KV  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
				SAP Advantage Database Server 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	Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.	Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Document store	Relational DBMS	Key-value store with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.91 Rank #131   Overall #24   Document stores	Score 1.05 Rank #186   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 4.01 Rank #79   Overall #9   Key-value stores
Website	aws.amazon.com/­documentdb	www.gbase.cn		www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	aws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resources		www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
Developer		General Data Technology Co., Ltd.	OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2019	2004	2009	1993
Current release		GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c	3.2.0, December 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	yes	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C, Java, Python	Erlang
Server operating systems	hosted	Linux	Linux OS X	Linux Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	no	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.	no	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	restricted	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	Standard with numerous extensions	no	yes
APIs and other access methods	proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)	ADO.NET C API JDBC ODBC	HTTP API Native Erlang Interface	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages	Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	C#	C unofficial client library C# C++ unofficial client library Clojure unofficial client library Dart unofficial client library Erlang Go unofficial client library Groovy unofficial client library Haskell unofficial client library Java JavaScript unofficial client library Lisp unofficial client library Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby Scala unofficial client library Smalltalk unofficial client library	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined functions	Erlang	yes
Triggers	no	yes	yes pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	Sharding no "single point of failure"	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	yes	selectable replication factor	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)		yes	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Eventual Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible	yes	no links between data sets can be stored	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	Atomic single-document operations	ACID	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.				no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users and roles	yes	yes, using Riak Security	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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	Amazon DocumentDB	GBase	Riak KV	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS
Recent citations in the news	AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service 16 May 2024, AWS Blog A hybrid approach for homogeneous migration to an Amazon DocumentDB elastic cluster | Amazon Web Services 4 June 2024, AWS Blog Use LangChain and vector search on Amazon DocumentDB to build a generative AI chatbot | Amazon Web Services 20 May 2024, AWS Blog Vector search for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now generally available | Amazon Web Services 29 November 2023, AWS Blog Use headless clusters in Amazon DocumentDB for cost-effective multi-Region resiliency | Amazon Web Services 8 March 2024, AWS Blog provided by Google News			SAP Announces Q3 2023 Results: Asia Pacific and Japan View 19 October 2023, SAP News provided by Google News

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