DBMS > Datomic vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

db.apache.org/derby

www.hawkular.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

Amazon Web Services

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

1997

2014

2021

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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