DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

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

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2014

1993

2011

2010

2012

Current release

3.4-12

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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