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DBMS > MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SQream DB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SQream DB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systema GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.netprometheus.iosqream.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdocs.sqream.comdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSQream TechnologiesTimescale
Initial release20042011201520172017
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20232022.1.6, December 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaGoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nono infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonouser defined functions in Pythonuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBaseShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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