DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. Microsoft Access vs. SiriDB vs. Snowflake

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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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

kx.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

siridb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

code.kx.com

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

docs.siridb.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Microsoft

Cesbit

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1992

2017

2014

Current release

3.6, May 2018

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

with views

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

rights management via user accounts

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

simple rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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