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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. openGauss vs. TerarkDB vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

vitess.io

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Huawei and openGauss community

ByteDance, originally Terark

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2013

2019

2016

2013

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

3.0, March 2022

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Java

C++
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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