DBMS > BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LeanXcale vs. LokiJS vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.hawkular.org

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

LeanXcale

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2014

2015

2014

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

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