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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.02
Rank#130  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1.35
Rank#165  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgquasar.aiwww.timescale.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCommunity supported by Red HatquasardbTimescaleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20142014200920171998
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20193.14.1, January 20242.13.0, November 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellPL/SQL
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancynoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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