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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. KairosDB vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. KairosDB vs. OpenQM vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmwww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceskairosdb.github.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsTobias Oetiker
Initial release2019201319932014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1999
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.4-1210 R1, October 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonoyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayeshorizontal partitioningnone
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 Cassandrayesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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