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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB vs. Quasardb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Vitess

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbquasar.aiwww.timescale.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidekairosdb.github.iodoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatquasardbTimescaleThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142013200920172013
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
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 proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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