DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpaceTime vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	Hawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparison	Prometheus  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	SpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. 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.	Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.	Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS	Vector DBMS
Secondary database models				Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.08 Rank #366   Overall #39   Time Series DBMS	Score 7.69 Rank #50   Overall #3   Time Series DBMS		Score 0.03 Rank #392   Overall #8   Spatial DBMS	Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #14   Vector DBMS
Website	www.hawkular.org	prometheus.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.mireo.com/­spacetime	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	www.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guide	prometheus.io/­docs
Developer	Community supported by Red Hat		Sybase, SAP	Mireo
Initial release	2014	2015	1993	2020	2023
Current release					1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	Go		C++	C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X Windows	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Linux	Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	Numeric data only	yes	yes	Vector, Numeric and String
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.	no	no Import of XML data possible	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	no	no	yes	no	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	no	yes	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented	no
APIs and other access methods	HTTP REST	RESTful HTTP/JSON API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages	Go Java Python Ruby	.Net C++ Go Haskell Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP	C# C++ Python	C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	yes	no	no
Triggers	yes via Hawkular Alerting	no	yes	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding based on Cassandra	Sharding	none	Fixed-grid hypercubes	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	selectable replication factor based on Cassandra	yes by Federation	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency based on Cassandra Immediate Consistency based on Cassandra	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	yes	no	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	no	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no	yes
User concepts Access control	no	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	yes	Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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	Hawkular Metrics	Prometheus	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	SpaceTime	Transwarp Hippo
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