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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SAP IQ vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational 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
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netprometheus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSAP, formerly SybaseSequoiadb Ltd.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20112015199420131987
Current release16.1 SPS04, April 2019Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby FederationSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionyes
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 controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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