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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. CouchDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kinetica vs. SiriDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcouchdb.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.kinetica.comsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.kinetica.comdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerCommunity supported by Red HatKineticaCesbit
Initial release20122005201420122017
Current release3.3.3, December 20237.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC, C++C
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infoNumeric data
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 indexedyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelsimple rights management via user accounts

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