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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. LokiJS vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackIn-memory JavaScript DBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitekylin.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopentsdb.netquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inccurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SC
Initial release20152014201120142011
Current release3.1.0, July 20204.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)nonoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID for single-table writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono
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Apache KylinLokiJSOpenTSDBQuestDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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