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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. PostGIS vs. SingleStore vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. 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

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.timescale.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

SingleStore Inc.

Timescale

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2014

2005

2013

2017

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

8.5, January 2024

2.13.0, November 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

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

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

hash partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via 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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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