DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. H2 vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. SWC-DB

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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.

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.86
Rank	#133	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2database.com

www.hawkular.org

hsqldb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

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

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

Developer

Amazon

Thomas Mueller

Community supported by Red Hat

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2012

2005

2014

2001

2020

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

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
ODBC

HTTP REST

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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