DBMS > EXASOL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

www.hawkular.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Exasol

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2000

2014

2013

1993

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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