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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Drizzle vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. Newts

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL 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 ElasticSearch

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#261	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kinetica.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Spotify

Kinetica

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2019

2008

2014

2012

2014

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java
PHP

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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