DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. CouchDB vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. CouchDB vs. Heroic vs. Memgraph vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

couchdb.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

memgraph.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Spotify

Memgraph Ltd

Percona

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2017

2015

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

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

via views

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

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