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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSpotifyInterSystemsKinetica
Initial release20192008201419972012
Current release7.2.4, September 20122018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC, C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freedepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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