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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Apache IoTDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Hyprcubd vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonApache IoTDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and FlinkHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Serverless Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.31
Rank#164  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orghyprcubd.com (offline)sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchiotdb.apache.org/­UserGuide/­Master/­QuickStart/­QuickStart.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatHyprcubd, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2012201820142001
Current release1.1.0, April 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoC++
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Native API
HTTP RESTgRPC (https)Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicasselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoIntegration with Hadoop and Sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesyesnotoken accessno

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