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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Timescale

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2005

2013

2017

2015

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

2.13.0, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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