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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

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

Well established RDBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

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Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

duckdb.org

www.hawkular.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Actian Corporation

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

Current release

0.10, February 2024

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

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

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