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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. TerarkDB

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Name

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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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.hawkular.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

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

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Spotify

Circonus LLC.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2014

2017

2016

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

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

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
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++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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

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