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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Ignite vs. MariaDB vs. QuestDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A high performance open source SQL database for time series data

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	2.52
Rank	#109	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

ignite.apache.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

questdb.io

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

questdb.io/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

QuestDB Technology Inc

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2019

2015

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

2013

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

11.3.2, February 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C and C++

Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust

C++, Go

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL with time-series extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

PostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

over HTTP

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)

Sharding

hash partitioning

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 (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with eventual consistency

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID for single-table writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

through memory mapped files

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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