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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. jBASE vs. Sphinx vs. Splunk

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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 robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

sphinxsearch.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

sphinxsearch.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2014

1991

2001

2003

Current release

5.7

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition 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++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

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

optional

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary protocol

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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