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DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB

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NameOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteopentsdb.netprometheus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhereterminusdb.com
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSiteWhereDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2011201520102018
Current release11.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 indexesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding infobased on HBaseGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole-based access control

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