DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.hawkular.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

postgis.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

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

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2013

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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