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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Sadas Engine vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.gigaspaces.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sadasengine.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SADAS s.r.l.Simer Plaha
Initial release20192000201020062018
Current release15.5, September 20208.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetErlangC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyes, event driven architectureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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