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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. Splunk

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.memcached.orgpostgis.netwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidekairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalSplunk Inc.
Initial release20142013200320052003
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.6.27, May 20243.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and roles

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