DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP SQL Anywhere 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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

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

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP

formerly Sybase

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

2009

1992

2003

Current release

3.2.0, December 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Erlang

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

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

JavaScript

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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