DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Hawkular 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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

graphite.readthedocs.io

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

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Chris Davis

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2012

2006

2014

2012

2010

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Python

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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