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DBMS > Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB

System Properties Comparison Drizzle vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB

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NameDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  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.Hawkular 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 BigTableScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orghbase.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDB
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentation
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCommunity supported by Red HatApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powersetcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOushu
Initial release2008201420082011
Current release7.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20214.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnononoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanoyes
Triggersno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoKerberos, SSL and role based access

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