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DBMS > Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. TinkerGraph vs. Vitess

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NameNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netprometheus.iotinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinvitess.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperOpenNMS GroupThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142005201520092013
Current release3.4.2, February 202415.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.noyesno infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerPop 3ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Groovy
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 infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby FederationnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencynonenoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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