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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GridDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iogriddb.netopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.griddb.netgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperRackspaceToshiba CorporationOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardb
Initial release20132013201420112009
Current release5.1, August 20223.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial 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 languageJavaC++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID at container levelnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodGridDBNewtsOpenTSDBQuasardb
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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