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DBMS > HugeGraph vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison HugeGraph vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. QuestDB vs. ToroDB

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NameHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.netquestdb.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docskairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBaiducurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsQuestDB Technology Inc8Kdata
Initial release20182013201120142016
Current release0.91.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesGroovy
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnonono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsvia hugegraph-sparknonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoedges in graphnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID for single-table writesno
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.yesnonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissionssimple password-based access controlnoAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
HugeGraphKairosDBOpenTSDBQuestDBToroDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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