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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Memcached vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.memcached.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikigithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20152003201420152009
Current release1.6.25, March 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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