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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Kingbase vs. Newts vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.kingbase.com.cn

opennms.github.io/newts

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenNMS Group

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2013

1999

2014

2010

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

V8.0, August 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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