DBMS > OpenTSDB vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison OpenTSDB vs. TimescaleDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Our visitors often compare OpenTSDB and TimescaleDB with InfluxDB, Prometheus and Graphite.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.76
Rank	#122	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.77
Rank	#97	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

opentsdb.net

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.timescale.com

Developer

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Timescale

Initial release

2011

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

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

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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...
» more

Competitive advantages

TimescaleDB is purpose-built to scale and handle time-series data workloads and is...
» more

Typical application scenarios

DevOps and Infrastructure Monitoring All monitoring data is time-series data. Efficiently...
» more

Key customers

TransferWise, Maersk, AppDynamics, Walmart, Comcast, LaunchDarkly, IBM, NOV, Cisco,...
» more

Market metrics

With over 9,000 GitHub stars and growing, 600,000 active databases, and an active...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

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

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.