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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. Realm vs. VoltDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#147	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#352	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

docs.voltdb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

VoltDB Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2011

2014

2010

2012

Current release

11.3, April 2022

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

yes

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