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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. Realm vs. Sqrrl vs. StarRocks vs. SurrealDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteprometheus.iorealm.iosqrrl.comwww.starrocks.iosurrealdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrealm.io/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Amazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20152014201220202022
Current release2.5.3, March 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++, JavaRust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesyesyesyes
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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
MySQL protocol
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infomaking use of Hadoophorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby Federationnoneselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entitynoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)Role based access control and fine grained access rightsyes, based on authentication and database rules

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