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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PostGIS

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Well established RDBMS

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

postgis.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.actian.com/ingres

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Actian Corporation

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Initial release

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2018

2012

2005

Current release

11.2, May 2022

0.8, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Ingres Replicator

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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