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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Community supported by Red HatSpotifyVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20082002201420142018
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.1, February 2017v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonono
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandrayesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights per client and object definableno

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