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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. RRDtool vs. Splunk

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Analytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitewww.hawkular.orgprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideprometheus.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTobias OetikerSplunk Inc.
Initial release20142015200919992003
Current release3.2.0, December 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoErlangC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoNumeric data onlyyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesnonorestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
in-process shared library
Pipes
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnoyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federationselectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak SecuritynoAccess rights for users and roles

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