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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus vs. SpaceTime vs. VoltDB

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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

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.92
Rank	#51	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

prometheus.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

prometheus.io/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Mireo

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2015

2020

2010

Current release

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Python

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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