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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. ScyllaDB vs. SpaceTime vs. ToroDB

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 systemCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsKey-value storeRelational 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
Score4.08
Rank#76  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgprometheus.iowww.scylladb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideprometheus.io/­docsdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatScyllaDBMireo8Kdata
Initial release20142015201520202016
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, Luano
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnono
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 infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyesAccess rights for users and roles
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Hawkular MetricsPrometheusScyllaDBSpaceTimeToroDB
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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