DBMS > Ingres vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrientDB vs. SQLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

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

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Actian Corporation

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2011

2010

2000

2018

Current release

11.2, May 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API
Telnet API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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