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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.High performance Time Series DBMSLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgkx.comwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecode.kx.comsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSybase, SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice Machine
Initial release20142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003199320012014
Current release3.6, May 20183.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaqC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (q)yesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Delphi
Perl
PHP
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesnoyes infoJava
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infowith viewsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
noneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Hawkular MetricsKdbSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADSSphinxSplice Machine
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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