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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Amazon Redshift vs. Hazelcast

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Hazelcast

Initial release

2019

2012

2008

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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 Map

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

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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