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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular 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 metricsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.26
Rank#355  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score31.26
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#195  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatVictoriaMetrics
Initial release201420132018
Current release2.5.1, November 2022v1.89, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Strings
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts
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Hawkular MetricsInfluxDBVictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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High performance, horizontally scalable time series database and monitoring solution...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Specifically designed for highly loaded workloads Addresses most of the scalability...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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When the current monitoring solution can't keep up with increasing workload Kubernetes...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Grammarly, Wix.com, adidas, Sensedia, Brandwatch, CERN, COLOPL, Razorpay See our...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 25,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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8k stars and 100+ contributors on GitHub 100M+ downloads Thousands of active users...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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VictoriaMetrics comes in three versions: an open source version, an Enterprise version...
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