DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.hawkular.org

prometheus.io

rockset.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

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

prometheus.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Amazon

Community supported by Red Hat

Rockset

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2019

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

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.

Import of XML data possible

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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