DBMS > Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.00
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	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

opentsdb.net

quasar.ai

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

OpenNMS Group

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

quasardb

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2011

2009

2013

2019

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

integer and binary

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

simple password-based access control

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