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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidesphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatSybase, SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20062014199320012014
Current release3.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP REST.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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