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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. Splunk

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSplunk Inc.
Initial release19992008201420082003
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)no infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users and roles

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