DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Cassandra vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. NCache

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

cassandra.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Community supported by Red Hat

Manticore Software

Alachisoft

Initial release

2019

2008

2014

2017

2005

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

HTTP REST

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, with selectable consistency level

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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