DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. Kingbase vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.50
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Score	821.56
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	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

hazelcast.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Hazelcast

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Microsoft

SenX

Initial release

2014

2008

1999

1989

2015

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

V8.0, August 2021

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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