DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk

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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.

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.hawkular.org

www.progress.com/openedge

prometheus.io

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

prometheus.io/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Community supported by Red Hat

Progress Software Corporation

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2014

1984

2015

2003

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

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

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

close to SQL 92

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Multi-source 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

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Users and groups

Access rights for users and roles

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