DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.geomesa.org

www.hawkular.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Rackspace

CCRi and others

Community supported by Red Hat

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2014

2018

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 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

Scala

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

predefined 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

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Synchronous replication

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

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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