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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rockset.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.rockset.com
DeveloperChris DavisCirconus LLC.Rockset
Initial release2019200620172019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languagePythonC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infotext, numeric, histogramsdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnonoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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