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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Pinecone

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.55
Rank#240  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#146  Overall
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.netwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201320112019
Current release1.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsString, Number, Boolean
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
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlno

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