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System Properties Comparison GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. mSQL

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NameGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServermSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMS infowith GEO packageDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score78.40
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.gigaspaces.comwww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasehughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperGigaspaces TechnologiesCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoftHughes Technologies
Initial release20002014201320101994
Current release15.5, September 20202.7.5, January 2024V124.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaGoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query languageyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoTransact SQLno
Triggersyes, event driven architectureyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes, with always 3 replicas availablenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnosimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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GigaSpacesHawkular MetricsInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzuremSQL infoMini SQL
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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