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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. RRDtool vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. RRDtool vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBIndustry 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.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.hawkular.orghsqldb.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCommunity supported by Red HatTobias OetikerTimescale
Initial release20142014200119992017
Current release2.7.2, June 20231.8.0, 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesHP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlynumerics, 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.nononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP RESTHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, SQLnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranonenoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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