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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Prometheus vs. RRDtool

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchprometheus.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchprometheus.io/­docsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftTobias Oetiker
Initial release20132014201520151999
Current release1.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 2017V11.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptGoC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyNumeric 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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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