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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Teradata

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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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

hazelcast.com

www.memcached.org

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

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

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

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Hazelcast

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2008

2003

1989

1984

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

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

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

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

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

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

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

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

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Replicated Map

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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