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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. CockroachDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. CockroachDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbase
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9
DeveloperAmazonCockroach LabsCommunity supported by Red HatRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)
Initial release2012201520141991
Current release24.1.0, May 20245.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptional
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredhorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesRole-based access controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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