DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InterSystems Caché vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.91
Rank	#131	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

www.hawkular.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

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

docs.intersystems.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

InterSystems

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2019

2014

1997

2013

2020

Current release

2018.1.4, May 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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