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DBMS > Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
prometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iodocs.heavy.aiprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Tobias Oetiker
Initial release2020201620151999
Current release5.10, January 20221.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric data only
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 possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replicationyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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