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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoSpock vs. MonetDB vs. OpenSearch vs. PouchDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score16.36
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgeospock.comwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
pouchdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperGeoSpockMonetDB BVAmazon Web ServicesApache Software Foundation
Initial release2019200420212012
Current release2.0, September 2019Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.5.0, January 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptCJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, RyesView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneAutomatic shardingSharding via remote tablesShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Amazon DocumentDBGeoSpockMonetDBOpenSearchPouchDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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