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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RisingWave vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.hawkular.org

www.risingwave.com/database

swaydb.simer.au

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

RisingWave Labs

Simer Plaha

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2013

2014

2022

2018

2014

Current release

15585

1.2, September 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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