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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Galaxybase vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

galaxybase.com

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2019

2017

2013

2018

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Role-based access control

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