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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SQL.JS vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Hawkular 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 CouchDB

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

sql.js.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Oracle

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2014

2010

2011

2012

1998

Current release

23.3, December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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