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DBMS > Badger vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Badger vs. Citus vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HyperSQL vs. TimescaleDB

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NameBadger  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Scalable 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.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.orghsqldb.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.citusdata.comwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperDGraph LabsCommunity supported by Red HatTimescale
Initial release20172010201420012017
Current release8.1, December 20182.7.2, June 20232.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 functionalitynonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJava, SQLuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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