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System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Neo4j vs. SAP HANA vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Scalable, ACID-compliant graph database designed with a high-performance distributed cluster architecture, available in self-hosted and cloud offerings

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.91
Rank	#123	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	42.68
Rank	#21	Overall
	#1	Graph DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

griddb.net

www.hawkular.org

neo4j.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

neo4j.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Community supported by Red Hat

Neo4j, Inc.

SAP

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2013

2014

2007

2010

2019

Current release

5.1, August 2022

5.23, August 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version3, commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Can also be used server-less as embedded Java database.
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

pluggable indexing subsystem, by default Apache Lucene

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
Neo4j-OGM

Object Graph Mapper
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data Neo4j
TinkerPop 3

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

User defined Procedures and Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

via event handler

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes using Neo4j Fabric

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

available in in Enterprise Version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Causal and Eventual Consistency configurable in Causal Cluster setup
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID at container level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users, roles and permissions. Pluggable authentication with supported standards (LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos)

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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