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System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. SingleStore vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

opentsdb.net

www.singlestore.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.singlestore.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SingleStore Inc.

Mireo

Alessandro Furieri

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2011

2013

2020

2008

2018

Current release

8.5, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

server-less

Linux

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

hash partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes

Role-based access control

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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