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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Hive vs. mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. Sphinx

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.hawkular.orghive.apache.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookHughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014201219942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2001
Current release3.1.3, April 20224.4, October 202110 R1, October 20183.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factornonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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