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DBMS > Hypertable vs. Quasardb vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Hypertable vs. Quasardb vs. SpaceTime vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitequasar.aiwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.timescale.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.timescale.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperHypertable Inc.quasardbMireoTimescaleVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20092009202020172018
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20163.14.1, January 20242.15.0, May 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++C++CGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infointeger and binaryyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingFixed-grid hypercubesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyeswith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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