DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Cloudant

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

docs.heavy.ai

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2012

2014

2016

2010

Current release

5.10, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

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++ and CUDA

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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