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DBMS > Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperChris Daviscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSequoiadb Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20062011201520131987
Current releaseTransbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlynumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 possiblenono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoDocument is locked during a transactionyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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