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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#215	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#16	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#214	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#129	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

kairosdb.github.io

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

Developer

McObject

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2001

2013

2011

Current release

8.2, 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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