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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

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

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.hawkular.org

www.progress.com/openedge

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon

Community supported by Red Hat

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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