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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Lovefield vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. searchxml 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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.hawkular.org

google.github.io/lovefield

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

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Google

SAP

formerly Sybase

informationpartners gmbh

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1992

2015

2003

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

17, July 2015

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition 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++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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