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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. Yaacomo

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websiteopentsdb.netwww.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.iorethinkdb.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docs
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201520092009
Current release10 R1, October 20182.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
TriggersnoyesnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioningShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCnoAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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