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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Open-source TimeSeries DBMS and monitoring system

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.03
Rank	#121	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.76
Rank	#62	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	50.69
Rank	#20	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	2.86
Rank	#100	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Website

opentsdb.net

prometheus.io

lucene.apache.org/solr

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

prometheus.io/docs

lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html

docs.timescale.com

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Timescale

Initial release

2011

2015

2006

2017

Current release

8.8.0, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

Numeric data only

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Import of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java plugins

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

by Federation

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Timescale is the creator of TimescaleDB , the first open-source relational database...
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Competitive advantages

TimescaleDB is purpose-built to scale and handle time-series data workloads and is...
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Typical application scenarios

DevOps and Infrastructure Monitoring All monitoring data is time-series data. Efficiently...
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Key customers

TransferWise, Maersk, AppDynamics, Walmart, Comcast, LaunchDarkly, IBM, NOV, Cisco,...
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Market metrics

With over 9,000 GitHub stars and growing, 600,000 active databases, and an active...
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Licensing and pricing models

TimescaleDB comes in 3 versions, including fully managed Cloud-hosted solutions*,...
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