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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Snowflake vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

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NameKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataTime Series DBMS and big data platformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationkairosdb.github.iodocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSnowflake Computing Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013201420192016
Current release1.2.2, November 20183.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandrayesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayesyesnone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
KairosDBSnowflakeTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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