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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. HBase vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Document store

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Trend Chart

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

www.hawkular.org

hbase.apache.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

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

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

8Kdata

Initial release

2014

2008

2015

2018

2016

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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