DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx 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.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

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

Primary database model

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Score	5.95
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	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splice Machine

Initial release

2014

2015

2013

2001

2014

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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

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