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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Prometheus vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgprometheus.iowww.sadasengine.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designprometheus.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSADAS s.r.l.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20122015200920062018
Current release29.0.1, April 20243.2.0, December 20228.0v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoErlangC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoErlangnono
Triggersnonoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesyes infoby Federationselectable replication factornoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
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.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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