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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. MaxDB vs. MongoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureSpatial extension of PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score421.65
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iomaxdb.sap.comwww.mongodb.compostgis.netrocksdb.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikimaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualpostgis.net/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperRackspaceSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MongoDB, IncFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20131984200920052013
Current release7.9.10.12, February 20246.0.7, June 20233.4.2, February 20248.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)nono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesRead-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interfaceyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Actionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infoin MongoDB Atlas onlyyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.yes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolationACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLno
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMongoDBPostGISRocksDB
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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