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DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#223  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.mcobject.comgeospock.comwww.hawkular.orgquasar.aiwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMcObjectGeoSpockCommunity supported by Red HatquasardbTimescale
Initial release2001201420092017
Current release8.2, 20212.0, September 20193.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java, JavascriptJavaC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, 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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availablenononoyes
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
selectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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