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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Pinecone vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx vs. Trafodion

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteopentsdb.netwww.pinecone.iosiridb.comsphinxsearch.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPinecone Systems, IncCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20112019201720012014
Current release3.5.1, February 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsString, Number, Booleanyes infoNumeric datanoyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIProprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
PythonC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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