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DBMS > H2 vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison H2 vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. TerminusDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comopentsdb.netprometheus.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperThomas Muellercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2005201120152018
Current release2.2.220, July 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes
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 indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access control

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