DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP HANA

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

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.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

www.hawkular.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

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

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Amazon

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

2006

2010

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

8.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

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

yes, on a single node

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.