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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. OpenQM vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Description

Fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database service

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.88
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	3.08
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#293	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	654.34
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

hsqldb.org

machbase.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

machbase.com/dbms

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Machbase

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2019

2001

2013

1993

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

3.4-12

16.4, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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