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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 vs. RethinkDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2rethinkdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceshugegraph.apache.org/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2rethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperBaiduIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2019201820101983 infohost version2009
Current release0.912.1, October 20162.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
TriggersnonoyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeeds
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)via hugegraph-sparkyesnoyes
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 possibleyes infoedges in graphnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infoMVCC based
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissions

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