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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. Titan

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgprometheus.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideprometheus.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20142015200920202012
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoErlangC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyesyes
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 indexesnonorestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnoyes
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubesyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federationselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, using Riak SecurityyesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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