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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ vs. Vertica

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
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.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatSAP, formerly SybaseOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release2006201419942005
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 201912.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrashared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexerhorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno infoBi-directional 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 integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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GraphiteHawkular MetricsSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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