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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. SpaceTime

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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.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

prometheus.io

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Mireo

Initial release

2014

2015

2013

1999

2020

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

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++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

yes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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