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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. PlanetScale vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. PlanetScale vs. Solr vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAnalytics Platform for Big DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgplanetscale.comsolr.apache.orgwww.splunk.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideplanetscale.com/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatPlanetScaleApache Software FoundationSplunk Inc.Timescale
Initial release20142020200620032017
Current release9.6.1, May 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxJava pluginsyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at shard leveloptimistic lockingno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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