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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.hawkular.orgrethinkdb.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guiderethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCommunity supported by Red HatThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice Machine
Initial release20142014200920092014
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 20223.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nononoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangyes infoJava
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular AlertingClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoAtomic single-document operationsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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