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DBMS > KairosDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbrethinkdb.comwww.sqlite.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iorethinkdb.com/­docswww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Dwayne Richard HippTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2013200920001987
Current release1.2.2, November 20182.4.1, August 20203.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes infovia file-system locksyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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