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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. TimescaleDB vs. Tkrzw vs. XTDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.hawkular.orgobjectbox.iowww.timescale.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.objectbox.iodocs.timescale.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatObjectBox LimitedTimescaleMikio HirabayashiJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142017201720202019
Current release2.15.0, May 20240.9.3, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++CC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellnono
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infononeyes, each node contains all data
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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