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System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB vs. MonetDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmaxdb.sap.comwww.monetdb.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatGoogleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MonetDB BV
Initial release20062014201419842004
Current release2.1.12, February 20177.9.10.12, February 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaScriptC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesyes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular AlertingUsing read-only observersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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