DBMS > NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

origodb.com/docs

postgis.net/documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Robert Friberg et al

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

2005

2014

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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