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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. Tarantool

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Well established RDBMSIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpatial extension of PostgreSQLIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.memcached.orgpostgis.netwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatActian CorporationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVK
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s200320052008
Current release11.2, May 20221.6.25, March 20243.4.2, February 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCCCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Proprietary protocolOpen binary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnouser defined functionsLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres Replicatornone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infobased on PostgreSQLAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

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