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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS

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

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Well established RDBMSA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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
Score4.48
Rank#75  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesplanetscale.compostgis.net
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.actian.com/­ingresplanetscale.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatActian CorporationMicrosoftPlanetScale
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201220202005
Current release11.2, May 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 availablenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraIngres Replicatoryes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic lockingACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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