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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Drizzle vs. eXtremeDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSWide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.mcobject.comwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.html
DeveloperAmazonDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerMcObjectCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20122008200120142008
Current release7.2.4, September 20128.2, 20212.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoby defining eventsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning / shardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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