DBMS > Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB 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

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.hawkular.org

rocksdb.org

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cognitect

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2012

2023

2014

2013

2003

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.0, March 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

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, Clojure

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Lua

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

yes

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

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

Password-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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