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System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Circonus LLC.

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2017

2014

2011

2015

Current release

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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