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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Initial release

2014

2010

2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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