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

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

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

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Cognitect

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

Splunk Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2014

2013

2003

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

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

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

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

Access rights for users and roles

simple authentication-based access control

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