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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. NuoDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. NuoDB vs. Splunk

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NameAlibaba Cloud PolarDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.59
Rank#241  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­polardbwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2www.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­polardb/­product-overviewwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2doc.nuodb.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAlibabaCommunity supported by Red HatIBMDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Splunk Inc.
Initial release20141983 infohost version20132003
Current release12.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree version is availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesJava, SQLyes
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Versiondata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersAccess rights for users and roles
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