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

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Huawei and openGauss community

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2019

2010

2019

2018

Current release

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C, C++, Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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