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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. Hive

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichive.apache.org
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroiccwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Home
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisSpotifyApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20192012200620142012
Current release1.0.7075, December 20233.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojurePythonJavaJava
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduce
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes infoquery execution via MapReduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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