DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

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

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

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

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.postgresql.fastware.com

www.hawkular.org

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

Community supported by Red Hat

Manticore Software

Initial release

2019

2012

2014

2017

Current release

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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