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DBMS > Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. openGauss vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. openGauss vs. Riak KV vs. TimescaleDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.hawkular.orggitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCommunity supported by Red HatHuawei and openGauss communityOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20092014201920092017
Current release3.10.0, March 20223.0, March 20223.2.0, December 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++, JavaErlangC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnonumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoANSI SQL 2011noyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJCacheHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesErlanguser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Sharding infono "single point of failure"yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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