DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. RisingWave vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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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.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.risingwave.com/database

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

Technical documentation

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

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Social network pages

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

RisingWave Labs

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2017

1989

2022

1992

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.2, September 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

UDFs in Python or Java

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

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Licensing and pricing models

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