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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Blueflood vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.86
Rank#133  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#352  Overall
#36  Time Series DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score3.55
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchblueflood.iogithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tables
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAmazonRackspaceDragonflyDB team and community contributorsCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoft
Initial release20122013202320142012
Current release1.0, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyespredefined schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesyes
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 indexednononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoLuanono
Triggersnonopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoPassword-based authenticationnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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