DBMS > KairosDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TempoIQ vs. TimescaleDB vs. ToroDB

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Name

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Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.timescale.com

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Alex Kashirin

TempoIQ

Timescale

8Kdata

Initial release

2013

2020

2012

2017

2016

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

0.5, April 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C++

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

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

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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