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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SwayDB vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SwayDB vs. Titan

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
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.
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWidely used in-process key-value storeAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Key-value storeGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#117  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.hawkular.orgopentsdb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSimer PlahaAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142011199420182012
Current release18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)ScalaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnonoyes
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infoonly for the SQL APInoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBasenonenoneyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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