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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database servicedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.06
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Huawei and openGauss community
Initial release2019201220102019
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC, C++, Java
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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