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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Hazelcast vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.A widely adopted in-memory data gridNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score5.46
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Key-value stores
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.hawkular.orghazelcast.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasepostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidehazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdoc.nuodb.compostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatHazelcastDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release20142008201320052018
Current release5.3.6, November 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++CScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesJava, SQLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infoEventsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoReplicated Mapyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedACID infotunable commit protocolACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.noyesyes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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