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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Sequoiadb vs. TimescaleDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.42
Rank#169  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.00
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score5.33
Rank#72  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.ioopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.sequoiadb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSequoiadb Ltd.Timescale
Initial release20172011201520132017
Current release2.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaGoC++C
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexnumerics, 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.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJavaScriptuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationSource-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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoDocument is locked during a transactionACID
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.nonononono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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