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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Derby vs. DolphinDB vs. Hawkular Metrics

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.87
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	5.30
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	4.23
Rank	#82	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

db.apache.org/derby

www.dolphindb.com

www.hawkular.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

DolphinDB, Inc

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2012

1997

2018

2014

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators, Users, Groups

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