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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LevelDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LevelDB vs. SiriDB

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.95
Rank#128  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgriddb.netwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­google/­leveldbsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.griddb.netwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.siridb.com
DeveloperAmazonToshiba CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatGoogleCesbit
Initial release20122013201420112017
Current release5.1, August 20221.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnoyes 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 indexedyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
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 signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonosimple rights management via user accounts
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchGridDBHawkular MetricsLevelDBSiriDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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