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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. JaguarDB vs. PostGIS vs. Solr vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#356  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score44.28
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.jaguardb.compostgis.netsolr.apache.orgwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidewww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatDataJaguar, Inc.Apache Software FoundationTimescale
Initial release20142015200520062017
Current release3.3 July 20233.4.2, February 20249.5.0, February 20242.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesCJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyesyesyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsJava pluginsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDoptimistic lockingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 controlnorights management via user accountsyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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