DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. MariaDB vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime

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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.

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

prometheus.io

rockset.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

prometheus.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Rockset

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

2019

2020

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

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.

yes

Import of XML data possible

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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