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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlwww.hawkular.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2014201320132011
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL2016 compliantnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
HTTP RESTHTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access controlno
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AntDBHawkular MetricsInfluxDBKairosDBOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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