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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. ObjectBox vs. SwayDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webobjectbox.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisObjectBox LimitedSimer Plaha
Initial release20192015200620172018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Unix
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)noneImmediate 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 operationsAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyesno
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