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DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Newts

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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.Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgriddb.netwww.hawkular.orgopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.griddb.netwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperAmazonToshiba CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatOpenNMS Group
Initial release2012201320142014
Current release5.1, August 2022
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 infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
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
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenono
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchGridDBHawkular MetricsNewts
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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