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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache Impala vs. Badger vs. BigchainDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAnalytic DBMS for HadoopAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score13.77
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.bigchaindb.comwww.hawkular.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmlgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaDGraph LabsCommunity supported by Red Hat
Initial release20122013201720162014
Current release4.1.0, June 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++GoPythonJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCGoGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenono
Triggersnononoyes infovia Hawkular Alerting
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberosnoyesno

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