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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hypertable vs. PostGIS

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatHypertable Inc.
Initial release2019201420092005
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)HTTP RESTC++ API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor on file system levelyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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