DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Postgres-XL

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Name	Cachelot.io  Xexclude from comparison	Google Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparison	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	Postgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
Description	In-memory caching system	Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform	Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.	Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database model	Key-value store	Document store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models				Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.04 Rank #388   Overall #62   Key-value stores	Score 4.36 Rank #72   Overall #12   Document stores	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.53 Rank #254   Overall #117   Relational DBMS
Website	cachelot.io	cloud.google.com/­datastore	www.hawkular.org	www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentation		cloud.google.com/­datastore/­docs	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide	www.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
Developer		Google	Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release	2015	2008	2014	2014 since 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release				10 R1, October 2018
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Simplified BSD License	commercial	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Mozilla public license
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	yes	no	no
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Implementation language	C++		Java	C
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux OS X	hosted	Linux OS X Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free	schema-free	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	no	yes, details here	yes	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.	no	no	no	yes XML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexes	no	yes	no	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language (GQL)	no	yes distributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methods	Memcached protocol	gRPC (using protocol buffers) API RESTful HTTP/JSON API	HTTP REST	ADO.NET JDBC native C library ODBC streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages	.Net C C++ ColdFusion Erlang Java Lisp Lua OCaml OCaml Perl PHP Python Ruby	.Net Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Go Java Python Ruby	.Net C C++ Delphi Erlang Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python Tcl
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	using Google App Engine	no	user defined functions
Triggers	no	Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine	yes via Hawkular Alerting	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	Sharding based on Cassandra	horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	Multi-source replication using Paxos	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	yes using Google Cloud Dataflow	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths	no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions	no	ACID MVCC
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	no	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no	no
User concepts Access control	no	Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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