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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Prometheus

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2In-memory JavaScript DBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSprometheus.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iotechfort.github.io/­LokiJSprometheus.io/­docs
Initial release201320142015
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data only
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
nonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnono

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