DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Prometheus 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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.mysql.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

prometheus.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Mireo

Initial release

2014

1995

2011

2015

2020

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

23.3, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

Numeric data only

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

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

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

yes

by Federation

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

none

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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