DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

1987

Current release

10 R1, October 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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