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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. Prometheus vs. SiteWhere vs. TimescaleDB

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgprometheus.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.timescale.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSiteWhereTimescale
Initial release2010201520102017
Current release3.2.29, March 20242.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yespredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnonoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, Javascriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
TriggersHooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoby Federationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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