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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteprometheus.iorethinkdb.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies8Kdata
Initial release2015200920092016
Current release2.4.1, August 20203.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 possiblenonono
Secondary indexesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlang
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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