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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. MonetDB

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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.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	29.86
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#131	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

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

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2014

2013

2004

Current release

2.0.8, August 2021

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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 query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Depending on used storage engine

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Column-store In-memory optimized GeoSpatial support JSON document support
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Analytical database, Data warehouse, OLAP Data mining Scientific database
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Key customers

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Numascale , Spinque , SecurActive , CHS , NOZHUP
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Market metrics

Fastest growing database to drive 23,500 GitHub stars Over 600,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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Free and open-source software, Mozilla Public License 2.0 Commercial support available
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