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DBMS > Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Kdb

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.High performance Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Websitegalaxybase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.hawkular.orgkx.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecode.kx.com
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司CCRi and othersCommunity supported by Red HatKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc
Initial release2017201420142000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003
Current releaseNov 20, November 20214.0.5, February 20243.6, May 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree 32-bit version
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and JavaScalaJavaq
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeStrong typed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (q)
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infowith views
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processing
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenorights management via user accounts
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GalaxybaseGeoMesaHawkular MetricsKdb
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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