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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. RisingWave vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenQM vs. PostGIS vs. RisingWave vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  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.QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.58
Rank#242  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmpostgis.netwww.risingwave.com/­databasewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidepostgis.net/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsRisingWave LabsTimescale
Initial release20141993200520222017
Current release3.4-123.4.2, February 20241.2, September 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCRustC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infowith some exceptionsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSONnumerics, 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.noyesyesnoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Javauser 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 Alertingyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers and Rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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