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

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

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudHawkular 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 datasetsIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score44.27
Rank#23  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehelp.sap.com/­hanadocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoftSAPSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20122014201220102014
Current release2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno infoalso available as a cloud based serviceyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAppliance or cloud-servicehosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexednonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoSQLScript, Ruser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic lockingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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