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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. LokiJS vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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