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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Interbase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PostGIS vs. Sadas Engine

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
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Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

postgis.net

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Embarcadero

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

1984

2005

2006

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

HP Open VMS

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Interbase Change Views

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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