DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Warp 10

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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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.14
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	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

SenX

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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