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DBMS > DuckDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MonetDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA relational database management system that stores data in columnsM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.monetdb.org/­Documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatIBMMonetDB BVSiteWhere
Initial release20182014201720042010
Current release1.0.0, June 20242.0Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraActive-active shard replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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