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DBMS > KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset vs. Transbase

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.netrockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRocksetTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013201120191987
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsdynamic typingyes
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesSource-replica replication
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 Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 controlnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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