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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MaxDB vs. SQream DB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score2.15
Rank#115  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmaxdb.sap.comsqream.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997SQream Technologies
Initial release2019201019842017
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20242022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemshostedhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
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
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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