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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PlanetScale vs. PostgreSQL

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PlanetScale vs. PostgreSQL

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Application development environment with integrated database management systemScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score636.25
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlplanetscale.comwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlplanetscale.com/­docswww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatProgress Software CorporationOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)PlanetScalePostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20141984198420201989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current releaseOpenEdge 12.2, March 20207.4.1.1, 202116.3, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMSDocker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yesyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrahorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Shardingpartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single nodeACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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