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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2019200220172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release1.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 201810 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CJavaScript
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesno
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in Luauser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioningSharding 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 replicasMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-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)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsyes, on a single nodenoACID infoMVCCno
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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