DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2019

2014

1983

host version

2017

2013

Current release

12.1, October 2016

6.0, February 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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