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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Hive vs. Newts vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopTime Series DBMS based on CassandraOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitehive.apache.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsprometheus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFatCloudApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookOpenNMS GroupTimescale
Initial release20122012201420152017
Current release3.1.3, April 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#JavaJavaGoC
Server operating systemsWindowsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes infovia applicationsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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