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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TiDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TiDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionHawkular 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 ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlpingcap.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidespotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatSpotifyCirconus LLC.SAP infoformerly SybasePingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20142014201719922016
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 201817, July 20158.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Hawkular MetricsHeroicIRONdbSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTiDB
Specific characteristicsTiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantages- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosTiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersBlock, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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