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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Sphinx

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCloudflare Workers KV  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksA global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.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
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.39
Rank#274  Overall
#39  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.cloudflare.com/­developer-platform/­workers-kvwww.hawkular.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdevelopers.cloudflare.com/­kv/­apiwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAmazonAtos Convergence CreatorsCloudflareCommunity supported by Red HatSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122016201820142001
Current release17033.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalnoyesno
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APILDAPHTTP REST
Proprietary protocol
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyesnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infocell divisionSharding 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 AWSyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyEventual 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 datanoAtomic execution of specific operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 signaturesLDAP bind authenticationnono

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