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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. RavenDB vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk vs. Transbase

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAnalytics Platform for Big DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgravendb.netsphinxsearch.comwww.splunk.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideravendb.net/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatHibernating RhinosSphinx Technologies Inc.Splunk Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142010200120031987
Current release5.4, July 20223.5.1, February 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availablenono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databasenoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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