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DBMS > Hawkular Metrics vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Hawkular Metrics vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.hawkular.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.comvelocitydb.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.timescale.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCommunity supported by Red HatMireoTimescaleVelocityDB IncVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142020201720112018
Current release2.15.0, May 20247.xv1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NETFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NetGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellnono
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular AlertingnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDno
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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