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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memgraph vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmemgraph.comswaydb.simer.autrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmemgraph.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Memgraph LtdSimer PlahaApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20192010201720182014
Current release2.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangC and C++ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneSharding
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
Multi-source replication using RAFTnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenoyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID infowith snapshot isolationAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers, roles and permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon DocumentDBIBM CloudantMemgraphSwayDBTrafodion
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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