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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. OpenTSDB vs. Pinecone vs. Prometheus

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgopentsdb.netwww.pinecone.ioprometheus.io
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2012201120192015
Current release29.0.1, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsString, Number, BooleanNumeric data only
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 infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Python.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnono

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