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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#380  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#173  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score6.92
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score3.68
Rank#74  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
prometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox LimitedMireoTimescale
Initial release20142017201520202017
Current release4.0 (May 2024)2.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++GoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesNumeric data onlyyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes infoby FederationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
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 ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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