DBMS > Dgraph vs. Firebolt vs. MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. Firebolt vs. MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	1.53
Rank	#152	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

www.firebolt.io

www.mongodb.com

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

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.firebolt.io

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

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

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

MongoDB, Inc

Percona

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2016

2020

2009

2015

2022

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Although 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.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

depending on storage layer

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Planned for future releases

Access rights for users and roles

Users and Roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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