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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. MonetDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.orgwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidespotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatSpotifyMonetDB BVYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20142014201420042017
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Ryes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding via remote tablesHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Hawkular MetricsHeroicLokiJSMonetDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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