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System Properties Comparison Prometheus vs. RethinkDB vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB vs. XTDB

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NamePrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websiteprometheus.iorethinkdb.comwww.starrocks.ioswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationprometheus.io/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Simer PlahaJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152009202020182019
Current release2.4.1, August 20202.5.3, March 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C++, JavaScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 possiblenononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
TriggersnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding inforange basedhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)nonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoAtomic single-document operationsnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno

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