DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

prometheus.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

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

prometheus.io/docs

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Mireo

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

2015

2020

2001

Current release

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

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