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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. HBase vs. mSQL vs. Rockset

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbhbase.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrockset.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceshbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHughes TechnologiesRockset
Initial release2019200819942019
Current release2.3.4, January 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesdynamic 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 indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual 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 operationsSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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