DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Fauna vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#72	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

fauna.com

www.hawkular.org

sphinxsearch.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.fauna.com

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon

Fauna, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2014

2001

2011

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

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 Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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