DBMS > H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Newts vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of H2

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

www.hawkular.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opennms.github.io/newts

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

CNRS

Community supported by Red Hat

Microsoft

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2013

2014

2009

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST
Java API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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