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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. Rockset vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

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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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

prometheus.io

rockset.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

docs.rockset.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Rockset

Mireo

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2015

2019

2020

2000

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

dynamic typing

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

none

Eventual Consistency

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

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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