DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Coveo vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Infobright vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	2.14
Rank	#116	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.coveo.com

www.hawkular.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.coveo.com

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

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Coveo

Community supported by Red Hat

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

2005

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

restricted

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

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

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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