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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Microsoft Access vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Spatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Time Series DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesspostgis.netsiridb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesspostgis.net/­documentationdocs.siridb.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatMicrosoftCesbitVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20141992200520172011
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.2, February 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP API.Net
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003yes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple rights management via user accountsBased on Windows Authentication

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