DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. etcd vs. HBase vs. Newts vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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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Score	1.85
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

hbase.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

OpenNMS Group

SAP

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

2010

Current release

3.4, August 2019

2.3.4, January 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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