DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Graphite vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

graphite.readthedocs.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Chris Davis

Microsoft

SiteWhere

TempoIQ

Initial release

2019

2006

2014

2010

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP API
Sockets

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

simple authentication-based access control

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