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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. MariaDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score83.44
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
github.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
opentsdb.net
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iomariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarydocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
ObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20132009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 199520172011
Current release1.2.2, November 201811.5.2, August 20244.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3nono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandraseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infowith MEMORY storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
KairosDBMariaDBObjectBoxOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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