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DBMS > Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Spatial extension of PostgreSQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.hawkular.orgpostgis.netdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChris DavisCommunity supported by Red HatMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20062014200520202019
Current release3.4.2, February 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaCC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP RESTHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, each node contains all data
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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