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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Lovefield vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. Splice Machine

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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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

google.github.io/lovefield

machbase.com

rethinkdb.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

machbase.com/dbms

rethinkdb.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Google

Machbase

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

2013

2009

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

V8.0, August 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Using read-only observers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

range based

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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