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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. SpaceTime vs. SQream DB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgprometheus.ioquestdb.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimesqream.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideprometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docsdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatQuestDB Technology IncMireoSQream Technologies
Initial release20142015201420202017
Current release2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL 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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL with time-series extensionsA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
C++
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Fixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID for single-table writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes
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Hawkular MetricsPrometheusQuestDBSpaceTimeSQream DB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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