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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Bangdb vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchaws.amazon.com/­simpledbbangdb.comwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbdocs.bangdb.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAmazonAmazonSachin Sinha, BangDBCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release2012200720122014
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++Java
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL like support with command line toolno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes (enterprise version only)no

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