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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Ingres vs. KairosDB vs. PostGIS

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWell established RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbpostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.heavy.aidocs.actian.com/­ingreskairosdb.github.iopostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatHEAVY.AI, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release201420161974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20132005
Current release5.10, January 202211.2, May 20221.2.2, November 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDACJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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