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System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. mSQL vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB vs. Valentina Server

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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.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#379	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.hawkular.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.timescale.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

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

docs.timescale.com

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Community supported by Red Hat

Hughes Technologies

STS Soft SC

Timescale

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2014

1994

2011

2017

1999

Current release

4.4, October 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

2.13.0, November 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C#
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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