DBMS > BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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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.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#342	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	88.71
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.hawkular.org

machbase.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

machbase.com/dbms

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Machbase

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2013

1992

2003

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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