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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. RRDtool

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument 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
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orgoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidemanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatManticore SoftwareTobias Oetiker
Initial release201420172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB1999
Current release6.0, February 202310 R1, October 20181.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++CC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanyesNumeric data only
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.noCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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