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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB vs. Riak KV

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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.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.hawkular.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

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

kairosdb.github.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Community supported by Red Hat

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2014

2013

2009

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

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