DBMS > BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

www.hawkular.org

www.progress.com/openedge

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

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

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

Progress Software Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

1984

2015

2013

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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 groups

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