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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

prometheus.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

prometheus.io/docs

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Spotify

SiteWhere

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2015

2010

2018

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by Federation

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

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