DBMS > Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

db.apache.org/derby

www.hawkular.org

objectbox.io

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

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

docs.objectbox.io

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Community supported by Red Hat

ObjectBox Limited

Amazon Web Services

TempoIQ

Initial release

1997

2014

2017

2021

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

Proprietary native API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple authentication-based 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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