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DBMS > Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Postgres-XL vs. Prometheus vs. SpatiaLite vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NamePostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSpatial extension of SQLiteA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.postgres-xl.orgprometheus.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationprometheus.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAlessandro FurieriVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201520082018
Current release10 R1, October 20185.0.0, August 2020v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGoC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationnoneSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCnoACIDno
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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