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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.hawkular.orgprometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideprometheus.io/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsCommunity supported by Red HatMireoSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152014201520202001
Current release24.1.0, May 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesno
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTSharding infobased on CassandraShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnonoyesno

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