DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Ignite vs. Kinetica vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#132	Overall
	#24	Document stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/documentdb

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/documentdb/resources

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.kinetica.com

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Kinetica

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2019

2015

2012

2013

1995

Current release

Apache Ignite 2.6

7.1, August 2021

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C, C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes (replicated cache)

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Access rights for users and roles on table level

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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