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DBMS > Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. PostGIS

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iowww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release2013201420082005
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemepredefined schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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