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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS info

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store info

in DB2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)

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Score	0.06
Rank	#312	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	163.17
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	6.60
Rank	#53	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	88.27
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/analytics/db2

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1983

host version

1992

2003

Current release

12.1, October 2016

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

commercial info

free version is available

commercial

commercial info

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries info

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor info

based on Cassandra

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

Master-slave replication info

Database mirroring

Master-master replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency info

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency info

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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