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DBMS > Axibase vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SwayDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCommunity supported by Red HatSimer Plaha
Initial release2013201020142018
Current release155858.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScala
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesno
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nono
Triggersyesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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