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DBMS > Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. SiriDB

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NameGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitegreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSsiridb.com
Technical documentationdocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperPivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Cesbit
Initial release20052014201020142017
Current release7.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes infoNumeric data
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.yes infosince Version 4.2nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple rights management via user accounts

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