DBMS > CouchDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. RDFox vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Relational DBMS

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

kx.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

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

code.kx.com

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2005

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2014

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

3.6, May 2018

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

via views

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

with views

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

rights management via user accounts

Roles, resources, and access types

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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