DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.geomesa.org

www.hawkular.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

CCRi and others

Community supported by Red Hat

SAP

Initial release

2019

2014

2010

Current release

5.0.1, July 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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