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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. jBASE vs. Nebula Graph

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Name

Description

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)

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Score	0.96
Rank	#173	Overall
	#28	Document stores

Score	157.17
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#120	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.92
Rank	#175	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

www.jbase.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
nebula-graph.io

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

docs.zumasys.com/jbase

docs.nebula-graph.io

Developer

IBM

Zumasys

Vesoft Inc.

Initial release

2019

1983

host version

1991

2019

Current release

12.1, October 2016

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Strong typed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Proprietary native API
Query language nGQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++
Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Relationships in graphs

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

using RocksDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

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