DBMS > KairosDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. SiteWhere vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SiteWhere

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2014

2011

2010

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access rights for users and roles

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