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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimescaleDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  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.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOracles in-memory data grid solutionA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.timescale.com
DeveloperChris DavisCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracleTimescale
Initial release20062014201120072017
Current release14.1, August 20232.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaJavaJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesnumerics, 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 indexesnonononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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