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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere vs. Titan

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSiteWhereAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142010201120102012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP RESTJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infobased on HBaseyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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