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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. BigObject vs. Cachelot.io vs. OpenTSDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

In-memory caching system

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Document store

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

docs.bigobject.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2019

2015

2011

2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Memcached protocol

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

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