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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. TerarkDB

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websiteopentsdb.netprometheus.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2011201520092016
Current release3.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryno
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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