DBMS > EDB Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

quasardb

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2005

2014

1995

2009

1987

Current release

14, December 2021

9.0.0, July 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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