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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GridGain vs. HBase vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#137  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.53
Rank#155  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#73  Relational DBMS
Score31.25
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.gridgain.comhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSTS Soft SC
Initial release20192007200820092011
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.12.3.4, January 20213.2.0, December 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaErlangC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonono
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoCoprocessors in JavaErlangno
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)yesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes, using Riak Securityno

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