DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

surrealdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

surrealdb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2010

2022

1987

Current release

V12

v1.5.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2020
4 January 2021, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

Waiting for Red Hat OpenShift 4.0? Too late, 4.1 has already arrived… • DEVCLASS
5 June 2019, DevClass

provided by Google News

Copilot in Azure SQL Database in Private Preview
27 March 2024, InfoQ.com

Microsoft unveils Copilot for Azure SQL Database
27 March 2024, InfoWorld

Azure SQL Database migration to OCI - resources estimation and migration approach
11 January 2024, Oracle

Expand the limits of innovation with Azure data
21 March 2024, Microsoft

Azure SQL Database outage caused by network infrastructure
18 September 2023, The Register

provided by Google News

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: SurrealDB
10 May 2024, SDTimes.com

Meet Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, CEO & Co-Founder Of SurrealDB
25 April 2024, TechRound

Cloud, privacy and AI: Trends defining the future of data and databases
27 September 2023, Sifted

SurrealDB raises $6M for its database-as-a-service offering
4 January 2023, TechCrunch

Introducing SurrealDB: A Quantum Leap in Database Technology
11 September 2023, TechRound

provided by Google News

Share this page