DBMS > Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenSearch vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.hawkular.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

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

opensearch.org/docs/latest

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

Developer

Rackspace

Community supported by Red Hat

Amazon Web Services

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2013

2014

2021

2018

Current release

2.5.0, January 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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