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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Informix vs. OpenTSDB vs. RisingWave

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixopentsdb.netwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
opentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRisingWave Labs
Initial release20142010198420112022
Current release14.10.FC5, November 20201.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC, C++ and JavaJavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsStandard SQL-types and JSON
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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesnoUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsnoUsers and Roles

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