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

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netprometheus.ioquasar.aiwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.voltdb.com
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2011201520092010
Current release3.14.1, January 202411.3, April 2022
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 licensesOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++Java, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
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 infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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